Build your own learning plan for writing fiction What if everything in the world went right for your book, and now you may actually have a writing career? The thing […]
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Why copying great writing improves yours Modeling and imitation are time-tested techniques used by athletes, artists, and skill-builders of all stripes. One of the best ways to stretch your writing
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Affordable ways to study fiction writing Are you still struggling with where to put the comma in a dialogue tag (or was that a period)? Forget mixing up peek/peak/pique; are
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12 ways a synopsis helps your book You can quit holding your nose now—this whole synopsis thing is going to take longer than a single breath of air. Writing your
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Why your first manuscript should stand alone Writing a series is standard operating procedure for self-published authors seeking to grow their catalogs. The formula is simple: stretch a story concept
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10 hidden benefits of hiring a book editor An editor can give you a hand out of all sorts of tight spots in your book’s development, not just writing and
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Revision vs. Re-Vision: Early draft truths Nobody wants to scale the stony gray wall of revision. Nobody. Not even those crazy Spartan racers. (You go, Spartans.) A novel revision stares
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Top 6 story revision moves Are you guilty of trying to put lipstick on a pig? As my colleague Jami Gold confided via email, “I’ve seen far too many authors
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Tools for planning and writing a book series The very first decision a series author has to make is what type of series to create. Are you telling a single
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Nothing revs my editorial engines higher than a new way of explaining a storytelling or writing technique. My family gets put out with my workaholic ways when they find me
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