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Powerful Openings
Is your opening powerful? If not, why not? I’ve been judging a huge writing contest this week, and had literally a couple hundred stories that
How to Write a Book
How to Write a Novel: A 16-Step Guide
How to write a novel, from beginning to end in 16 steps. Brainstorm, develop a great character, create an antagonist, and more.
Writing
How Burnout Made me a Better Author
Burnout. Few words spark such dread among writers. Avoiding it, surviving it, and recovering from it are each the focus of many articles, blogs, podcasts, books, and conference classes. Still, most of us have or will find ourselves grappling with it. This struggle resembles a hiker who has fallen off an unforeseen cliff and now clings to the sheer rockface with desperate, failing fingers, unable to pull themselves up.
Writing
Boost Your Bottom Line & Sell More Books
bottom line books, bottomline books. bottom line books customer service & the bottom line book You got through the hard part of writing the book
Writing
The Importance of Setting
Why is it important? Mary Buckham, USA Today Bestselling author recently presented WRITING ACTIVE SETTING for David Farland’s mentoring group, Apex-Writers. It is an important
Writing
Why Editors Reject Your Story?
As many of you know, I judge stories for the Writers of the Future contest. Today I want to talk about those stories that get
Daily Kicks
How to Use Dialog Tags Terribly
Dialog tags help the reader know who is speaking the dialog. Recently, I shared how you could write bad dialog in your stories. The truth
Writing
The Influence Character: One of the Most Important Roles
The Influence Character is one of the most important roles in your character cast. It is third only to the protagonist and antagonist. The term
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Pacing a Story: What’s the Rush?
Pacing a story appropriately will keep readers engaged. Unfortunately, many mistakenly think this means the story needs to be rushed. I see a lot of
