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By Kelsey Olesen

How to Fix “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

The destruction of the Republic is planned as a side note to the ongoing conflict of the First Order hunting Finn and Rey for the map to Luk

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Getting Rid of Cultural Appropriation in Your Life & Writing

I am sharing this story with you, no matter how embarrassing and shameful, because I believe that all of us have something, large or small,

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Star Wars, Disney, & the Death of Creativity: What Writers Can Learn from The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi had a lot of great things going for it, including a wonderfully diverse cast of main characters, a female protagonist, and sev

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Creating a New World: A Defense of Children's Literature and Diverse Books

No matter what their ethnicity, children can learn about a real world full of diverse life experiences through diverse representation in the

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Get Obsessed with Your Story

It is difficult to know when to put off laundry one more day so that you can get that chapter down that's been rattling around inside yo

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Writing Tips: Revising vs. Editing, or How to Revise the Sh*t Out of Your Novel

Quite literally two days before I was scheduled to start revisions, I thought of a new aspect to my main character which would completely ch

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Inspiration for Writers (and Everyone Else Too)

These are the things which help me to "just keep swimming" and writing my heart out. Hopefully one of them will be inspirational f

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How to Write a Feminist Climactic Scene

I have recently been involved in feminist critiques of children's and young adult novels, where it is far too easy to point out what is...