Do You Really Know Your Characters?
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Photo credit: Thomas Milne on Flickr So I posted the other day about inner beauty versus outer beauty and it got me thinking: if every on...
Showing posts with label writing tip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing tip. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
writing tip
writing tip
Are Your Characters Beautiful?
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Photo credit: catherinetodd2 on Flickr Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like half of novels out there with any type of romance have a subplot ...
Monday, October 24, 2011
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writing tip
On Underestimating Your Readers
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I thought I knew about this rule, but it was really only recently that I fully grasped it. Photo credit: Per Jensen on Flickr You see, I’m a...
Friday, October 21, 2011
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writing tip
A Guaranteed Way to Fail
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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”—Bill Cosby Most of us like to make people happy...
Monday, October 17, 2011
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writing tip
Time is on Your Side
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Photo credit: kamera.obskura on Flickr At the beginning of my writing career, I was racing against the clock. I read about authors like Chr...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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writing tip
Do You Need That Scene?
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Photo Credit: E. Briel on Flickr For me at least, one of the most difficult things I had to come to terms with when learning how to edit, w...
Friday, September 23, 2011
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writing tip
Can You Lose the Ability to Write?
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Photo credit: Chris Blakeley on Flickr A little over a year ago, I hit a bump in my writing —a few bumps, actually. You see, I’d just sent ...
Monday, September 19, 2011
you are special
you are special
Unleashing Your Voice
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Photo credit: JKim1 on Flickr When I announced I’d be writing this post a week ago, I immediately knew it was going to be one of the hardes...
Friday, September 16, 2011
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writing tip
Defining Author Voice
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Photo credit: jjpacres on Flickr So now that we’ve thoroughly covered character voice and how to make them talk , it’s time we switch gear...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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writing tip
How to Make Your Characters Talk
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Photo credit: ntr23 on Flickr So now that we've defined character voice , it’s time to talk about how to put it into action. How do yo...
Monday, September 12, 2011
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writing tip
Defining Character Voice
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I don’t know about you guys, but one of the most important aspects of a work of writing for me is voice. It’s a rather broad subject, howeve...
Monday, September 5, 2011
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writing tip
The Prologue War
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Photo credit: tonyetone on Flickr If you’ve been paying attention to the realm of writing for any lengthy amount of time, I’m sure you know ...
Friday, September 2, 2011
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writing tip
How Important is Loving Your Novel?
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Photo credit: quinn.anya on Flickr So not too long ago I read this post from fellow writer Ara Grigorian ( @araTHEwriter on Twitter) in wh...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Your First Novel
Your First Novel
How to Plot with Flashcards
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Photo credit: konrad.lawson on Flickr Once upon a time I read Your First Novel by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb. I felt a little silly...
Monday, August 29, 2011
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writing tip
How to Write a Masterpiece
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Late Saturday night: after a particularly whimsical session of #wordmongering , I was chatting with fellow mongerer @Babseth , when we were ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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writing tip
Patience: A Virtue
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When I wrote about being absolutely positively 100% sure that you were done editing your WIP before submitting to agents or uploading to Sm...
Monday, August 22, 2011
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writing tip
Are You Really Done Editing?
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So you’ve finished editing. You’ve poured your heart and soul into your manuscript then spent countless hours cutting, rearranging, rewritin...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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writing tip
Finding Your Zone (Again)
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When it comes to increasing productivity, one of the most important things to recognize is when (and where) you work best. Of course since t...
Monday, August 8, 2011
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writing tip
How to Be a Happy Writer
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Photo credit: ohskylab on Flickr Most writers are ambitious people—we have to be, after all, just setting out to write a novel is an ambiti...
Friday, August 5, 2011
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writing tip
On Critiques
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When I was in high school, I took two Creative Writing classes. Since I’d devoted myself to writing every spare moment I had since the eight...
