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Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 526

with Daphne Gray Grant. Daphne is a

writing coach with a wealth of wisdom to help you do your writing at your J-O-B

all the better. So you'll learn one the biggest biggest mistake people make in writing, two, why outlines

don't work and what does, and three, the top do's and don'ts for engaging writing.

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absolutely bit different but have some fun with it and you can access the show

notes all the quicker anyway here's Daphne's story.

Daphne Great Grant grew up in newspapers.

Her parents owed a struggling weekly where she worked from the age of 16.

Eventually, she left the family business to become a senior editor at a major metropolitan

daily newspaper.

After the birth of her triplet children in 1994 she became a communications

consultant and writing an editing coach.

She's the author of the books Eight and Half Steps to

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