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What Authors Need to Know About Ordering Wearable Merch
If you’re an author thinking about wearable merch for a book launch or tour, here are some considerations to help the process go smoothly.
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Imposter Syndrome Is Not a Disease or Abnormality
Even successful writers fall prey to self-doubt. Here are a few ways to strengthen yourself if and when you hear that voice in your head.
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How Fear Affects Your Character in Real Time
Fear can limit our ability to apply reason and logic, leading to flawed choices and behavior—bad in real life, but story gold in fiction.
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Nailing Omniscient POV: 5 Guidelines to Captivate (Not Confuse) Readers
Omniscient POV might be resurging, thanks to some recent bestsellers. To use it well, remember three C’s: clarity, consistency, and control.
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Nailing Omniscient POV: 5 Guidelines to Captivate (Not Confuse) Readers
Omniscient POV might be resurging, thanks to some recent bestsellers. To use it well, remember three C’s: clarity, consistency, and control.
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How Often Can You Ask Your Reader to Jump?
Transitioning away too often—to a flashback or a new scene—risks losing the depth of storytelling that readers get from living inside a scene.
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Stop Counting Toothbrushes: Find Your Memoir’s Real Story
One memoir coach sees writers rush ahead into chapters and character detail before understanding: Why am I writing this exact story right now?
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Notice What You Notice About the World Around Us
"Noticing what you notice" helps you identify your authentic material and produce work no one can ever copy.
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Creating Microtension in Your Story Through Repetition
A repeated word, phrase, motif, symbol, or image can create tension for your readers in small, barely noticeable increments.
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Creating Microtension Through Setting Description
Author, copyeditor, and writing coach C. S. Lakin shares ways to create microtension through setting descriptions. You’re probably wondering what microtension is, and what it has to do with fiction writing. Oddly, very little has been written on the topic, yet it’s an essential element that supercharges our writing. No, it’s not the tension created...
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The Question Every Memoirist Needs to Ask (But Almost No One Does)
Before trying to structure a memoir, you must understand how you’ve changed and what that process looked like—which can be hard to pinpoint.
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Giving Your Characters Serious Challenges May Give Them Delightful Strengths
Most characters have a challenge to overcome, but what about more serious physical or psychological issues that can’t be “cured” or ignored?
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Citizen-Soldiers – not “Warriors”
In a recent prepared statement by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in which he cut the War Department’s ties and affiliation with his alma mater, Harvard University, he made several references that should make all American citizens—especially those in uniform—cringe with concern. His assertion that for decades the U.S. military sent its “best and brightest” officers to Harvard and other Ivy League universities “in hopes [those universities] might better understand and appreciate our warrior class” is not only incorrect on its face (that’s never been the intent of sending officers to graduate school), but it also espouses a class-based view of America’s military which runs completely contrary to our Republic’s military tradition and heritage. Sec. Hegseth even cited Washington’s assumption of command of the Continental Army in Harvard Yard in 1775 to impress upon his audience just how far Harvard and other universities had strayed from supporting their military. This follows several books and months of official statements where Sec. Hegseth touts his ‘restoration of the warrior ethos,’ his focus on ‘lethality’ and combat effectiveness, and his war on the ever nebulous ‘wokeness’ he claims has infected our military.
There is pungent irony in the Secretary’s decision to invoke Washington’s legacy in that statement. While on the way to Cambridge to assume the unimaginably heavy responsibility of commanding the new Continental Army in June of 1775, Washington stopped in New York City to deliver an address to the New York Provincial Congress. Though characteristically brief, humble, and temperate in his words, the 43-year-old General Washington made one salient pledge to the gathered audience that day. “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen,” he said, as he assured the legislators gathered there that this army of citizen soldiers would not become an instrument of state power over its own people. “Warrior” and “warrior ethos” were words Washington never used when describing what he aspired to or what he wanted his Army to emulate, and in fact you would be hard pressed to find any examples of his use of those words. Washington and most of the other founders would be appalled at the casual suggestion of the existence of any “warrior class” within American society—a society whose military heritage emphasizes that our own citizen-soldiers fight our wars, and not some detached “warrior class.”
The same is true of “lethality.” When we look at the history of America’s military, we find that this “restoration of the warrior ethos” and focus on “lethality” Sec. Hegseth incessantly speaks of is more a product of his limited military experience, his imagination, and his personal insecurities than anything anchored in our history or traditions. Washington worked tirelessly to build what he called a “respectable army,” and while direct lethal action is obviously an inherent and unfortunate reality of war, it was never the focal point of the meaning of military service in the Continental Army. Later in our history, the soldiers and officers who fought and won the Civil War once again broadly aspired to a tradition of volunteer citizen-soldiers, setting down their figurative (or in many cases very real) plows when duty called upon them, only to return to those plows when hostilities ceased. America’s senior military leaders historically leaned into this tradition, and avoided pandering to the false bravado of self-aggrandizing, macho, “warriors” standing ready to inflict maximum “lethality.” That model runs against the heritage and tradition of the American citizen-soldier and effectively exacerbates the problem of the increasingly cloistered warrior class—a condition which Sec. Hegseth seems happy to embrace rather than attempt to mend.
Incidentally, investigating the Secretary’s “restoration” might leave many disappointed to discover the ancient origins of the Army’s warrior ethos, which is unimpressively 23 years old, or 27 years if we’re generous. That “ethos” was formally adopted in 2003—while the Department of Defense was launching major ill-fated combat operations in the Middle East oriented on the vaguest strategic ends imaginable, and which culminated two decades later with the fall of Kabul. Is that the historical period, culture, and heritage Secretary Hegseth is “restoring?” If so, it reveals his puddle-deep appreciation for the 250-year history of the Army and its sister services, and his inability to put his own military service in context. American history was forged not by “warriors” or “lethality,” but by soldiers who were citizens—family members, laborers, teachers, tradesmen, etc.—first and foremost, and who reluctantly agreed to engage in the horrors of war only when all other means failed to avoid that recourse. The wisdom of our nation’s founders that Sec. Hegseth would gain much from in his current role is that reliance on citizen-soldiers—not warriors—tends to steer free societies toward restraint and painful deliberation over the use of military force. What ought to be restored is that citizens themselves should bear the burdens of our wars, and precisely NOT a bought and paid for “warrior class” which may indeed fight well but effectively insulates the citizenry from the horrible realities of combat resulting from policy decisions—realities which elected leaders in recent decades seem all too comfortable accepting in the name of political and economic expediency.
In his famous “Duty, Honor, Country” speech, Douglas MacArthur never used the terms “warrior” or “lethality.” But he did say “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” If Secretary Hegseth wants to restore something meaningful, perhaps he should consider the citizen-soldier as a much more worthy and less arrogant goal—and one based on America’s real military heritage which once at least aspired to restraint, just causes, and duty performed despite the obvious calamity of battlefield lethality. American soldiers should not shape their identity based on warrior machismo nonsense, but something much higher than that. We American soldiers are not thugs pursuing accolades, wealth, and personal glory. We volunteer to bear the burden of executing the warrior’s craft when the absolute necessity to do so arises, and we trust that our elected AND unelected leadership take the cost of that burden into full consideration before they decide to send us forward. American soldiers must always be citizens first, and soldiers second—and certainly not a warrior class.
–Regulus
Regulus is a career Army officer and West Point graduate. He has served one combat deployment in Kunar, Afghanistan, and led soldiers as a platoon leader and two-time troop commander in the 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry Divisions. He is also a historian and is currently earning his spurs as an angry staff officer.
The opinions noted here are the author’s and do not reflect those of the US Army or Department of Defense.
Cover image: Washington resigns his commission, by John Trumbull (courtesy Wikimedia commons)
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Ghosting Your Own Book: How to Cross the Finish Line When You Want to Run Away
Faced with pursuing publication that might reopen old wounds, one memoirist overcame the challenge with help from therapy, community, and AI.
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How Compassion Changed My Writing
When memoirists grant compassion to themselves and others, acknowledging everyone’s hopes and struggles, it makes writing easier—and better.
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Paying for Exposure on Social Media: What Not to Do
There’s no magic shortcut for marketing books, and anyone who tells you otherwise is definitely selling something.
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Teach Your Book: Designing a Class Around Your Memoir
By teaching our own work, a writer discovers not only what they do well, but how others might use such insights to unlock their own drafts.
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What Three-Star Reviews Really Mean for Authors
Readers who give three stars are often responding to the intersection between their expectations and the book—not the book’s inherent worth.
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The Memoir Playbook I Wish More Writers Knew
Three practices separate successful memoirists from those who underestimate the writing craft.
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Why ADHD Writers’ Brains Are Like Lions (and How to Harness Their Power)
By learning to embrace the nonlinear nature of the ADHD brain, you can learn to write with more ease and less frustration.
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Why Your Family Isn’t Supportive When You Publish Your Memoir
Lack of support might come from fears about their own privacy, not understanding the enormity of your achievement, and/or information overload.
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You’re a Great Writing Teacher. That’s Not Enough to Sell Out a Retreat
You love teaching, and your students love you. How can you position yourself to deepen their experience with a powerful live or online event?
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Beautiful Nature Poetry by John Grey!
I am delighted to have John Grey join me again to share some of his outstanding poetry!
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Genre as Delight, Not Dictator: How Learning About Genres Helps You Write Better
Applying genre labels to creative work can be vexing, but understanding each genre’s core concerns can also be inspiring and instructional.
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Conquest Narrative // Good Relation
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Build the Bridge: 3 Kinds of Transitions
When a scene shifts to a new setting, time, or POV without clearly bridging that gap, we risk losing readers’ trust and goodwill.
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When the Comments Section Is Challenging
A stranger wished her dead for writing about empathy. Reflections on the price women pay for publishing their thoughts—and reclaiming it.
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How to Use Podcast Guesting to Promote Your Nonfiction Book
One author appeared on 50+ podcasts before her book launched. Here’s what she learned about timing, pitching, and making it work for you.
https://janefriedman.com/how-to-use-podcast-guesting-to-promote-your-nonfiction-book/