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Monday, April 28
Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Fourth And Final 1,500 Words
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Here we are at last. This is the last post in a five part series on how to write a short story the Lester Dent way. (Here's a link ...
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Sunday, April 27
Stakes: How To Make Goals Matter
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I've already discussed conflict and the importance of having goals, but a goal is useless without stakes. Stakes are the possi...
Saturday, April 26
Parts of Story: Try-Fail Cycles
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One of the most useful tools or techniques for writing engaging prose is the try-fail cycle. The try-fail cycle lies at the heart of ho...
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Friday, April 25
George R.R. Martin On The Art And Craft Of Writing: 9 Tips For Writers
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Have you read George R.R. Martin's interview in Rolling Stone magazine? I was amazed and a little shaken by the depth of Martin...
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Thursday, April 24
Parts of Story: The Importance of Sequels
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In the previous chapter we discussed the structure of a sequel. Now lets talk about what a sequel does and how it does it. Jim Butche...
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Chapter Length And Genre
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The other day I wrote about James Patterson (see: 7 Tips From James Patterson For Writing Suspenseful Prose ). I learned a lot about th...
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Monday, April 21
Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula: The Third 1,500 Words
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This is the third in a series of articles I'm writing on Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula . Even though Dent wrote his form...
Sunday, April 20
Parts of Story: The Structure of Sequels
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As Dwight V. Swain says in Techniques of the Selling Writer , sequels take the protagonist from the disaster of one scene to the goal o...
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