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Ruth Kaplan

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Ruth Kaplan covers Crafts News, Art News and Editorial.

Articles by Ruth Kaplan

Development Hell: Why Good Story Projects Stall

Development Hell: Why Good Story Projects Stall

Ruth Kaplan

How to Read Art Like a Critic: A Beginner's Method

How to Read Art Like a Critic: A Beginner's Method

Ruth Kaplan

Teaching Creative Writing Without an MFA

Teaching Creative Writing Without an MFA

Ruth Kaplan

How to Run a Beta Reader Round Without Losing the Plot

Beta Readers: How to Run a Beta Reader Round Without Losing the Plot

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A Coach, a Book, and 26 Songs: What Brandon Wilson's Voice Lessons Actually Offers

Carmel — A Coach, a Book, and 26 Songs: What Brandon Wilson's Voice Lessons Actually Offers

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Street Art vs Vandalism: Where the Line Really Sits

Street Art vs Graffiti — Street Art vs Vandalism: Where the Line Really Sits

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Authors Like Freida McFadden: Twisted Thrills to Try Next

Authors Like Freida McFadden: Twisted Thrills to Try Next

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Worldbuilding Tips: How Authors Build Worlds Without Drowning Readers

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What That 15 Percent Agent Commission Actually Covers

What That 15 Percent Agent Commission Actually Covers

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How Copyright Protects a Manuscript Before Publication

How Copyright Protects a Manuscript Before Publication

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Adults of mixed ages in an evening writing class

Novelists Who Debuted After Fifty

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Book Cover Design as Art

Ruth Kaplan

Close-up of a pocket notebook and transit card on a café table

Writing Around a Day Job

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Infographic of record rare-book and manuscript prices

What Literary Manuscripts Sell For — and Why

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Infographic of hybrid author publishing paths

What a Hybrid Author Actually Is

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Two writers arranging scene cards on a whiteboard

How Scene and Sequel Structure Works

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Lit writing desk seen through a rain-streaked window at night

How Long Debut Novels Take to Write

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Close-up of a museum vitrine with a tiny handwritten volume

The Colonial Brontës Open at the Parsonage

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Close-up of an open novel's first paragraph under lamplight

Choosing Point of View for a Novel

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Infographic comparing flat and compressed dialogue rhythm

How to Write Dialogue That Reads Like People

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A bookseller arranging a table of debut fiction hardcovers

The Second Novel Problem

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