Score Story Plot Points with Head Fake Many readers enjoy books in which they attempt to solve the story’s central problem before the main character does. To add to such readers’ pleasure, authors sometimes will create “diversions”…

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Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process “I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.” – Clarence Budington Kelland“…I discovered that if I trusted my subconscious, or imagination, what…

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Employ lock-in to ensure you have a story To pump up the suspense in your story – nay, to even have a story – you will want to ensure your character experiences a “lock in.” A lock-in occurs when a character cannot escape a situation becau…

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Avoid Violating Chronology when Plotting Story Unless you’re a deft writer or have one incredible editor, resist the urge to shift back and forth in time from scene to scene. Instead, tell the story as it unfolds chronologically. That is, …

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Five Great Quotations about Literary Critics “If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” – Natalie Goldberg“…I hate orthodox criticism. I don’t mean great criticism,…

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Writing Affirmation: I write in the present Some would-be writers like to live in the future. They’re the kind who say, “Next year I will publish a novel” or “In five years I will have written a bestseller.” While having a vision and a plan …

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Select your viewpoint character with care Every story is told from someone’s perspective. This someone is known as the viewpoint character.For example, in “The Matrix” movie series, the story is seen through the perspective of Neo, th…

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What’s the difference between ‘mood’/’tone’? Two ideas closely related to voice are mood and tone.In every story, the author creates an emotional atmosphere – so that a reader might say, “The story felt very solemn” or “Th…

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Five Great Quotes about ‘Write What You Know’ “If you don’t know it, don’t write it.” – Darrell Schweitzer“It’s better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.” – L. P. Hartley“And as to experience – well, t…

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How to Pen Engaging Dialogue for Your Story No doubt your story will include dialogue in which characters speak to one another. Unfortunately, too many beginning writers drag their story into a furrow of tedium by poorly handling dialog…

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Avoid Violating Chronology when Plotting Story Unless you’re a deft writer or have one incredible editor, resist the urge to shift back and forth in time from scene to scene. Instead, tell the story as it unfolds chronologically. That is, …

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Avoid writing sin of authorial intrusion Have you ever read a book where the author suddenly jolted you out of the storyline with an aside or comment that just doesn’t flow with the rest of the work? When the book’s writer – ra…

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5 Great Quotations about Craft of Writing “Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.” – Shel Silverstein“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spr…

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Writing Affirmation: I write in the present Some would-be writers like to live in the future. They’re the kind who say, “Next year I will publish a novel” or “In five years I will have written a bestseller.” While having a vision and a plan …

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Avoid writing sin of authorial intrusion Have you ever read a book where the author suddenly jolted you out of the storyline with an aside or comment that just doesn’t flow with the rest of the work? When the book’s writer – ra…

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Five Great Quotations about the Writing Life “And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!” – David Almond“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you ar…

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10 Tips on Alternate Ways to Plot Your Story • Ways to break story structure Most novels, short stories and screenplays today follow a traditional five-part story structure, involving an introduction-rising action-climax-f…

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Quick Tip: Set a goal Sometimes to achieve a goal, we need a plan. That plan typically includes an objective and a process for reaching that goal. Before thinking about the process, though, you must have a clear goal, s…

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Five Quotes about Writing as Self-Discovery “Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.” – Julia Cameron“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operatio…

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Don’t underestimate first page’s importance When buying a book – whether online or at a bookstore – most people check out the cover, read the back cover blurb, and then open to the first page. Kudos to you for getting the reader that fa…

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Five Great Quotations about Writer’s Block “‘Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.’” – Meagan Spooner“I’ve always said ‘Writer’s Block’ is a myth. There is no such thing as writer’…

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Conflict: The Heart of Every Story When telling a story, you’ve got to have conflict in it. If there’s no conflict, you have a wooden story that starts nowhere, leads nowhere and ends nowhere. As E.M. Forester noted, “‘The…

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How to Pen Engaging Dialogue for Your Story No doubt your story will include dialogue in which characters speak to one another. Unfortunately, too many beginning writers drag their story into a furrow of tedium by poorly handling dialog…

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What’s the difference between ‘mood’/’tone’? Two ideas closely related to voice are mood and tone.In every story, the author creates an emotional atmosphere – so that a reader might say, “The story felt very solemn” or “Th…

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