Top 8 Tips For Plotting Your Story • Questions to ask yourself when plotting a story• Establish stakes • Utilize Chekhov’s gun• Avoid card tricks in the dark • Watch consistency errors • …

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Never Be Afraid to Write What You Believe – if the Message Speaks the Truth, Others will Fear Your Words for You. You’re at a cocktail party, are introduced to one of the guests. He asks, “What do you do?”“I’m a writer,” you respond.“Oh. What do you write?”At that moment, does your stomach churn with anxi…

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Five Great Quotations about Rules of Writing “The only ‘ironclad rules’ in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.” – Val Kovalin“There are many rules of good writing, but …

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5 Writing Mistakes You ALWAYS Want To Avoid • Passive voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Telling not showingPerhaps the most common mistake among novi…

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9 Must-Know Tips for Plotting a Story Plot means a lot of different things to different people. Some describe it as a sequence of events. Others say it’s what happens to the story’s characters. A few says it’s how the story’s events mo…

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6 Tips to Encourage and Reassure Writers Feeling unmotivated to write? Doubting that you have any writing talent? Blocked because you don’t know how to move forward with your story? Hopefully one of these articles will get you back …

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5 Quotations about Writing as Observation “Writing is a concentrated form of thinking…a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate him…

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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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5 Writing Mistakes You ALWAYS Want To Avoid • Passive voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Telling not showingPerhaps the most common mistake among novi…

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When to use first-person minor in stories Among the lesser used yet most powerful of point of views is first-person minor. This point of view occurs when the narrator is in the story but is not the protagonist. It can be identified by…

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Unsportsmanlike Grammar: Touch Base vs. Touch Bases In baseball, after hitting the ball the batter has to touch each of the four bases to score. If he misses a base and keeps running, he must go back to that base before advancing. Runners who m…

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How to Make Your Press Release Newsworthy Some mainstream media will ignore your release because they deem it as less news than an advertisement for your product. Indeed, an announcement that your book will be released or that it has been …

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How to Make Your Press Release Newsworthy Some mainstream media will ignore your release because they deem it as less news than an advertisement for your product. Indeed, an announcement that your book will be released or that it has been …

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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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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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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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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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6 Tips on the Process of Writing Your Story • Follow a ‘process’ when writing your book • The ‘thinking step’ when writing your book • Outline your scene when stuck on what to write • Draft rarely perfect after first …

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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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5 Great Quotations about Growing as a Writer “Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always…

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Indie authors: Murky biz advice, gray legal issues A variety of potential problems can create problems for indie authors starting their own business. Oftentimes, this arrives as murky business advice and gray legal areas. Here are some answers to c…

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Five Great Quotations about Why We Write “The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it.” – William Saroyan“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.” – Octavia E. Butler“The only end o…

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How to Make Your Press Release Newsworthy Some mainstream media will ignore your release because they deem it as less news than an advertisement for your product. Indeed, an announcement that your book will be released or that it has been …

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5 Writing Mistakes You ALWAYS Want To Avoid • Passive voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Telling not showingPerhaps the most common mistake among novi…

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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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15 Tips on How to Build a Story • Basic guidelines for your story’s rising action  • Develop conflicts related to resolving your story’s central problem • Unfold action to develop a stronger story • Your main characte…

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Mu shelves started out as organized by author or subject...but after a while it degenerated into a god awful mess.

“I’ve got too many books and not enough shelves! I’m being buried in the chaos!!”

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5 Great Quotations about ‘Why Write?’ “A writer is someone who has taught their mind to misbehave.” – Oscar Wilde“Why write? To write. To make something.” – Claude Simon“When I am writing I am doing the thing I was mea…

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Consider Using Parallel Plot Structure in Novel Rather than subordinating one plot to other – that is, rather than make one a subplot – why not treat them with equal importance? When two dramatic plots occur at the same time in a story, usu…

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