Fix scene by employing black box analysis One question a number of writers have when editing their novel or short story is if a scene succeeds or not. Sometimes they feel the scene lacks importance, yet they hesitate to cut or revise …

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Establish characters’ intentions in every scene Every time you start a story, you want to quickly establish a problem for the main character to solve and their intention of solving it. Maybe a hacked up dead body is found, and a detective i…

Establish characters’ intentions in every scene
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Which is Best: Character- or Plot-Driven Stories? Generally, stories can be classified as either character- or plot-driven. One is not necessarily better than the other, though readers usually respond more positively to the former.A character…

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Six useful tips for self-editing your book Once you’ve written your book, you need to edit it. Though you certainly can (and should) have an outside editor at least proofread your book, you’ll need to do some of that work yourself as w…

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7 Tips for Writing Story Characters • What are your characters’ motivations? • Do your characters’ actions arise from their needs? • Downgrade your minor characters Not all characters in…

7 Tips for Writing Story Characters
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The Absurdity of Surrender Machines learned our habits. Now writers are hiding them to avoid sounding AI-generated.

I wrote a short piece about a strange new writing pressure: cutting useful parts of a sentence because they now sound “AI-like.”

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How to Establish Setting in Your Story’s Opening Setting is the place and time in which the plot unfolds. The setting always must be established in a story’s opening lines.A setting helps anchor the story. That’s because the conflicts the ch…

How to Establish Setting in Your Story’s Opening
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7 Tips for Writing Story Characters • What are your characters’ motivations? • Do your characters’ actions arise from their needs? • Downgrade your minor characters Not all characters in…

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Creating a responsible authorship culture in science: Anchoring authorship practices in principles of transparency, credit, and accountability | PNAS Authorship remains the primary currency of academic credit and a cornerstone of research integrity, yet current practices often fail to reflect the...

Only 42% of US R1 universities link authorship credit to accountability. A PNAS working group says fixing this needs institutional reform and infrastructure that works across naming conventions. Journals can't solve this alone.

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A responsible authorship culture is needed — it is a collective responsibility Letter to the Editor

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Utilize man vs. man conflict in story When developing your story, you’ll want your characters to face a number of challenges or conflicts. One of the most basic of them is man vs. man. In this conflict, the main character finds his goa…

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Ways your main character can ultimately succeed When reaching the climax of the story, the main character usually overcomes the central problem that he set out to solve. Still, this penultimate scene tends to play out differently from story…

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Establish characters’ intentions in every scene Every time you start a story, you want to quickly establish a problem for the main character to solve and their intention of solving it. Maybe a hacked up dead body is found, and a detective i…

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Types of third-person point of views By far, the most common point of view used in literature is that of third-person.When the narrator is not a character in a story, a third-person point of view is being used. All character…

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Some Sober Reflections on AI A blog about my novels, my non-fiction and plays, and the daily life of a writer in the beautiful Scottish lowlands

How experienced writers are using AI. It's not a demon. It's a tool. @catherineczerkawska www.catherineczerkawska.co.uk/2026/03/some... #writingcommunity #publishing #authorship

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’

“AI nudges users into a bland monoculture. It could never generate the truly diverse creativity of the human mind”
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Why I made a river my co-author Anne Poelina gives first authorship to a source with deep knowledge about water — the river itself.

"Why I made a #river my #coauthor"

#AnnePoelina gives first #authorship to a source with deep knowledge about #water — the river itself.

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Avoid Stalling as Approaching Crucial Event One common plotting problem novice writers experience, especially in the first draft, is that of stalling.Stalling consists of including here-to-there scenes prior to when a cru…

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Nine ways to show a character’s personality Virtually infinite ways exist to show a character’s personality, but all should follow one simple, guiding principle: It must reveal and be grounded in the character’s motivations, that is, wh…

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4 Must-Knows for Your Author’s Website • On website, text is king, design is queenThere’s a lot of great stuff out there about what a website should look like and how to build one. Yet the most important element of any website is the wo…

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Five Great Quotations about the Pleasure of Writing “Writing stories is like making love.” – June Gillam“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea i…

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What if we were able to reconnect with and return to our essence, our humanity?

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How does the weather and temperature make the character feel? Describe the dormant trees and the desolate whiteness, throw a few sounds in for added effect.

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Hachette’s refusal to publish *Shy Girl* shows AI provenance is now a gatekeeper in publishing. Transparency on machine assistance will become a professional norm, protecting authorship and rights. #AIethics #Publishing #Authorship - Powered by FG

Build Email List to Sell Your Books One of the smartest marketing moves you as an author can make is to collect emails of those who show interest in your book.What will you do with this emails? You’ll send your most interested a…

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Ways your main character can ultimately succeed When reaching the climax of the story, the main character usually overcomes the central problem that he set out to solve. Still, this penultimate scene tends to play out differently from story…

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A Responsible Authorship Culture Is Needed and It Is a Collective Responsibility Questionable authorship practices have long been a concern for scientific integrity because they create a climate of mistrust in researchers and their findings. Deliberately hiding the contributions o...

A nice piece about responsible authorship. However, they failed to mention agentic AI that everyone is now using to write papers. A little out of date? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #publishing #science #research #authorship

5 Tips to Motivate and Reassure Writers • Trigger your creativity• Stories drive a civilization to its heights• Knead a troubled mind to peace by writing• Write yourself out of a nightmare• Writing: A journey tow…

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