Second-Person Point-of-View: You, Your, & Yours Second-person point-of-view is the least common point-of-view used in fiction, and mostly present in poetry, self-help non-fiction books, educational textbooks, instructional writing, or interactive n...

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Third-Person Omniscient Point-of-View: The Invisible Narrator Third-person omniscient is the one of the least common point-of-views used by writers within short stories and novels. From my previous blog post, I discussed third-person limited point-of-view and m...

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Point-of-View: The Eyes of the Story If you previously recall, point-of-view was one of the top story elements that I went over in my six essential story elements blog post. This particular element for short stories or novels is importan...

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The Emotional Landscape: Creating Impact for Readers to Feel the Story Whether through paintings, novels and books, news and journalism, or music, different types of creative stories can be powerful works of art and have emotional impact on the seer, reader, or listener....

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The 5 Phases of a Transitional Character Arc: My Character Arc Method Character arcs are important to show the internal, mental, emotional, and or spiritual development of characters in a story.

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Theme: What's Your Story's Idea? Theme is many times associated with the message of stories based on the terminology we're familiar with from writing essay and research papers in high school and college. However, theme in the world o...

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5 Types of Book Series and Serial Literary Terms One of the great pleasures of writing a book series is the different ways that writers can do them.

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CHARACTERS: Creating Character Interviews & Backstories Before writers write about their cast of characters, it can be extremely helpful to complete character interviews and backstories. Both of these forms of information can allow them to know their chara...

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Literary Devices: Foreshadowing & 5 Techniques Foreshadowing is probably a common literary device that most seasoned writers have heard of before. It's when writers give hints of future events that are to come or will happen later within a story.

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Literary Devices: Irony Irony is a literary device that can add wit and intrigue in one's writing, but it isn't commonly used as much as metaphors or similes. Nonetheless, it can work wonders for writers' stories in both nov...

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Christian Fiction: Writing For the Heart and Soul Christian fiction is writing for the heart and soul of readers, and a beacon of light among other genres in the book industry. Although it might not be the most popular, it's a book genre that holds s...

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The Stages of Writing: Stage 4: Drafting Drafting is one of the longest processes when creating novels or books and can take from a couple of weeks and months to even a few years to complete. Nonetheless, it's this stage where life is breath...

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The Stages of Writing: Stage 3: Plotting and Outlining Plotting and outlining together are the third stage of writing. These two forms of writing are sometimes used interchangeably; but overall, this stage is the preparation that is made before authors wr...

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The Stages of Writing: Stage 1: Prewriting Just as there are steps for a recipe, there are different stages of writing. Knowing the stages of writing can be beneficial in breaking down large book projects into smaller tasks. The first stage of...

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7 Specific Categories of Book Titles In many ways, books are like people, as each one carries an essence of life, inspiration, and influence of its own. You know what people say, "You shouldn't judge a book by its cover." But let's also ...

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Thematic Significance: What's Your Story's Message? Thematic significance is the moral, statement, or universal truth an author is conveying to their readers through their short stories, novels, or plays. It's the actual message a story's theme is abou...

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Theme: What's Your Story's Idea? Theme is many times associated with the message of stories based on the terminology we're familiar with from writing essay and research papers in high school and college. However, theme in the world o...

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Literary Devices: Adding Voice Voice is one of the most distinctive features within fiction and from authors' different writing styles alone. There are certain literary devices that can allow authors and writers express and show ch...

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Literary Devices: Adding Color Like artists who paint on canvases, writers can also create beautiful images and pictures by the use of their words. Aside from literary devices that add style and add voice, there are particular lite...

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Literary Devices: Adding Style Literary devices are writing tools and techniques that can help writers intrigue their readers more into their short stories, books, or novels. These story elements are like the different flavors and ...

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A few story elements to expect in my debut novel. I'm glad October is here because I can't wait to share the cover!

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My books take place in the 1940s, and it would be strange if my characters never mentioned any celebrities or trends from back then. It was part of their lives.
Where this can get annoying is if the reference is very niche/obscure or if it's being done every five minutes.
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