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At the Red Brick Store, “So You Want to Get Published? A Few Writing Tips<\/a>,” a compact list of useful pointers for writers. Yes, if you are a blogger, you are a writer. It’s the bottom of the barrel, self-edited and self-published, but if you are going to blog, you might as well learn to do it better. Be interesting. Use strong verbs. Give details. Be direct. Explore conflict. Lots of good ideas in this short post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Red Brick Store, “So You Want to Get Published? A Few Writing Tips,” a compact list of useful pointers for writers. Yes, if you are a blogger, you are a writer. 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