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Thursday, December 12
Using Index Cards To Outline A Novel
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"The card system is your map and your guide; the Plot Points your checkpoints along the way, the 'last-chance' gas statio...
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Tuesday, December 10
How To Create Distinct Characters: An Exercise
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Have you ever had trouble telling two characters apart? Either in your own work or others? I know I have, which is why I was thrilled to f...
Thursday, December 5
How To Build Vivid Characters
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Deborah Chester, in her latest blog post, " Writing with Flair " argues that we should not attempt to make our characters true...
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Wednesday, December 4
Sean Platt's and Johnny B. Truant's new book: Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success
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Yesterday +John Ward --with the blessings of the authors--passed along a copy of Sean Platt's and Johnny B. Truant's new book: ...
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Monday, December 2
HarperCollins Mystery Writing Contest: Write Your Own Agatha Christie Mystery
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HarperCollins, in conjunction with Agatha Christie's estate, offers writers a chance to play a game of Consequences by writing a ch...
Saturday, November 30
How To Write A Short Story
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A beginning writer recently asked for advice on how to write a short story. My answer to her query was far too long for her post but I...
Wednesday, November 27
Writer's Block and Perfectionism
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Ever stared at a black piece of paper while any semblance of an idea bled away? I think we all have. Writer's block is insidio...
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Tuesday, November 26
Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Second 1,500 Words
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This is the third post in this series. In the first post I went over the sort of things Dent said should be clarified before pen touche...
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Friday, November 22
Dan Brown's AMA on Reddit.com
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I'm going to do something different today. Instead of continuing with my series on Lester Dent's Master Short Story Formula , I&...
Wednesday, November 20
How To Write A Gripping Scene
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This material is drawn from Chapter Four of Dwight Swain's book Techniques of the Selling Writer . Dwight Swain writes: &qu...
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