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The Writer’s Toolbox
Tips, talk and techniques
for students and teachers of writing
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Writer's Toolbox
The order of things
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Your prose will flow more smoothly if you narrate things in the order in which they happened.
Sentences: A sentence is a thought, not a warehouse
MS
Sentences can be large, they can contain multitudes—but not literary litter.
Living vs. being based
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When did we stop living in a place and start being “based” there, as in “Jane Geist, based in Toronto”?
Interview with Mary Schendlinger
Luanne Armstrong interviews Mary Schendlinger on: types of editing, from developmental, structural, to copyediting; writing Geist buys; finding an editor; the term "creative non-fiction."
If you’re in the writing life, this page is for you!
The Writer’s Toolbox is put together by the editors of Geist magazine, a literary and cultural quarterly published since 1990. We are seasoned writers, editors and teachers of writing to students of all ages.
The Writer’s Toolbox is put together by the editors of Geist magazine, a literary and cultural quarterly published since 1990. We are seasoned writers, editors and teachers of writing to students of all ages.
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