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Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice

Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice

by Lucas, Michael W
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Become the Writer you Want to Be!


A hundred thousand gurus offer contradictory writing secrets. You must outline! You must free write! You must write at a standing desk with your feet in cold oatmeal!


The gurus are all correct-and all wrong.

In Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice, full-time author Michael W Lucas demonstrates how to build a personalized plan to transform yourself into the best author you can be. Writing is a set of skills, and deliberately stocking your tool chest makes each piece you write better than the last. Want to be a pro? Use the same techniques pros use.


Stop flailing.Start learning.
No badgers were harmed in the writing of this book.Contains no badger or badger by-products.Regulations on badger domestication vary by location.


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Pub dateFeb 28, 2022
ISBN-101642350583
ISBN-139781642350586
LanguageEnglish
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