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The Habit Weekly is a free letter about writing from Jonathan Rogers. Every Tuesday morning you’ll get practical writing advice—or at least interesting ruminations—and the encouragement you need to keep moving forward on your writing journey.

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Ten Ways Writers Can Support One Another

Also, letters of encouragement from writers to writers

Writers' Groups and an Abundance Mindset

What happens when writers take other writers seriously.

The Gift of Ignorance

Your feedback partners don't need your expertise.

Shrinking Your Audience

Why writers need readers more than they need a "readership."

A Blessing for Writers

A poem by Richard Wilbur

Two Sentences, 86 Words, No Wordiness

In which we get down to the nitty-gritty on sentence construction.

Why would I care about...?

The worst kind of rhetorical question. And some better ones.

Aaron Burr, Flannery O'Connor, H.G. Wells

Also, "Leaving Home" stories. This week's episode is a miscellany.

Two FICTION spots remain in the Writer Development Cohorts.

Last call for fiction writers. (The nonfiction cohort is full.)

Wedding Words (from the Archives)

Etymology, folk etymology, and a little bit of grammar. Also, a monkey wedding.

On the Verbing of Nouns

Also, the application deadline for Writer Development Cohorts is TODAY.