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Authors Anna Mercier and Lyssa Mia Smith fight to keep the joy in writing through weekly explorations of the one thing writers can control: their craft.

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Subtext, Making Good Ideas Better, Battle Scenes: Your Craft Questions Answered


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You.

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  • Turning To Story

    Authors Anna Mercier and Lyssa Mia Smith fight to keep the joy in writing through weekly explorations of the one thing writers can control: their craft.

  • Jill Tew

    Critically-acclaimed trad pub author of dystopian swoons and middle grade hijinks. New chapters of my Anti-GenAI Dystopian Romantasy published each week.

  • Lyssa Mia Smith

    Author of the romantic and the fantastical, including Gilded in Vengeance and Revelle. Cohost of @TurningtoStory.

  • Anna Mercier

    I'm a YA author YA fantasy romance ALL WE HUNGER FOR (OUT NOW) and co-host of the writing podcast @turningtostory podcast!

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