To Translate, or Not To Translate? How To Use Words That Are Not English • Career Authors How do you incorporate words that are not in English, whether they’re in a real language or a fictional one? Debut author Connor Martin explique tout.

To Translate, or Not To Translate? How To Use Words That Are Not English
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How to Write Stronger Scenes: Add More Depth and Detail | Aliventures Want to write scenes that have pace, tension, and conflict? Here's how to write a stronger scene, with 5 signs a scene needs work & 10 tips for improving it.

How to Write Stronger Scenes: Add More Depth and Detail
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How to Use Dialogue Tags and Keep the Flow Well-written dialogue tags help our understanding of emotion and tone, not ruining the flow. Read on to learn effective uses of tags in dialogue.

How to Use Dialogue Tags and Keep the Flow
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What’s a Plot Hole – and How Can You Fix it, Fast? (Six Examples & Solutions) | Aliventures What exactly is a plot hole in your story? What can you do about plot holes that you've spotted? Check out these six types of plot hole, plus easy fixes.

What’s a Plot Hole – and How Can You Fix it, Fast? (Six Examples & Solutions)
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BookTok Tips for Authors: Turn Scrolls Into Sales - Written Word Media BookTok Tips for Authors: Turn Scrolls Into Sales Here are some smart, detailed BookTok tips for indie authors. Learn how to turn scrolls into sales with strategy, emotion, and genre clarity in this blog post.

BookTok Tips for Authors: Turn Scrolls Into Sales
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8 Books About Characters Seeking Community and Connection - Electric Literature These authors illustrate the complexity of finding our place in the world

8 Books About Characters Seeking Community and Connection
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Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
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Not gonna lie... the fact that they used AI to generate the image for an article about "AI slop" is peak 2026.

How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939) American literature, this falls somewhat short of, say, 'Call me Ishmael.' The entire novel that follows is written in the same oddly stilted, circumlocutive prose, and a reader who skips the author's introduction may not perceive just what has set it askew for some time.

Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
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Things that Stop Us in Our Tracks: Are you your worst enemy? What stops you from writing? How do you open the door on your creativity? Are you your own worst enemy? Ossandra has great ideas on how to work through it all.

Things that Stop Us in Our Tracks: Are you your worst enemy?
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From Idea to Page: The Journey of a Romance Novel Writing a romance novel isn’t just about love scenes or attractive characters. It’s about crafting a journey of emotional transformation.

From Idea to Page: The Journey of a Romance Novel
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Amplifying tension in fear-driven scenes Fear can create important tension in your novel. Becca Puglisi lists ways to amplify that fear and create more tension

AMPLIFYING TENSION IN FEAR-DRIVEN SCENES
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Storytelling Beyond the Page: A Content Marketing Guide for Authors - Written Word Media Storytelling Beyond the Page: A Content Marketing Guide for Authors A content marketing guide for authors who want to build buzz, grow authority, and drive book sales. Learn how online marketing supports long-term visibility.

Storytelling Beyond the Page: A Content Marketing Guide for Authors
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How to Add Tension and Pace to a Scene That’s Sagging | Aliventures

How to Add Tension and Pace to a Scene That’s Sagging
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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience. Sometimes. If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and d…

4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward
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How to Create Compelling Hooks for Every Chapter Every chapter opening should pull readers in and every ending should push them forward. Here’s a 13 point checklist to make that happen.

How to Create Compelling Hooks for Every Chapter
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How Fear Shrinks Your Character’s World Over Time Learn how to show how fear affects your characters, holding them back and making them too afraid to step beyond their comfort zone.

How Fear Shrinks Your Character’s World Over Time
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How to Optimize Your KDP Book Listing for Amazon’s New A10 Algorithm - Written Word Media A10 Algorithm: Optimize Your KDP Book Listing to Rank Better Learn how the A10 algorithm affects your KDP book listing, metadata, reviews, and traffic so indie authors can improve visibility and sales.

How to Optimize Your KDP Book Listing for Amazon’s New A10 Algorithm
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Their Voices, Their Wounds: Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing About Trauma Author Fartumo Kusow shares two very big pitfalls to avoid when writing about trauma and how she navigated around them.

Their Voices, Their Wounds: Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing About Trauma
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Join me on the Life In The Faster Lane tour over the next few weeks. See my full schedule at www.bobbynash.com

Comic Book Creating Class on April 18th
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Stellar Fest 2026 on April 24 - 26th
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a drag queen is holding a mirror and says " the shade the shade of it all " Alt: Latrice Royale, a drag queen, is holding a fan and says " the shade the shade of it all "

Can I just say that calling Joe Rogan the "manosphere shepherd" is peak shade.

The #WIPSnips word for April 13th through April 19th. April 13th - child; April 14th - heat; April 15th - topic; April 16th - wheel; April 17th - duration; April 18th - fantasy; April 19th - signature.

Here are the #WIPSnips words for April 13th through April 19th!

I'm heading to JordanCon in Atlanta on Thursday. Jordan references Robert Jordan, so a few of the words are JordanCon inspired. "Time" had already been used in the past so "duration" is the substitute.

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writingbattle.com/join-battle/ I joined the upcoming Verdant Owl Battle with writers from around the world. Get Ready to Battle tonight! @writingbattle.bsky.social
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Queerness and Visibility in Body Horror The queer community is no stranger to horror. Life as we know it horrifies. Scarcely a minute goes by without gruesome news flashing across our close-held screens, casting stark light on the danger…

Queerness and Visibility in Body Horror
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What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we'll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at.

What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
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9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971 A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long gander at a list of nine freedoms that women in the United States were not universally granted in 1971, the year Helen Reddy released the soon-to-be anthem, 'I Am Woman,' above.

9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
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Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921) From the 18th century onward, the genres of Gothic horror and fantasy have flourished, and with them the sensually visceral images now commonplace in film, TV, and comic books.

Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
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Why Patience Is a Publishing Superpower—From Someone Who Took 20 Years to Find Publication Author Laura Vogt, who took two decades on her road to publication, explains why patience is a publishing superpower.

Why Patience Is a Publishing Superpower—From Someone Who Took 20 Years to Find Publication
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Why Writers Need to Learn How the Publishing Business Works Writing a book is only half the battle. Publisher Doug Seibold discusses the necessity of industry literacy for authors intent on building a profitable career.

Why Writers Need to Learn How the Publishing Business Works
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How to be Awesome Reading Your Story Aloud Authors sometimes avoid reading their stories aloud. But a well-read story can attract lifetime fans. Read how you can be awesome reading your story aloud.

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