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Boosting Your Prose

When I used to write for competitions, I would make lists of ways that judges might look at my work in order to grade it.

How to Bore an Editor to Death

While judging for the Writers of the Future with my handy laptop, and reading hundreds of stories, I decided to list some ways that otherwise

Escalate Your Story

Every story consists of a character with a problem and deals with his or her attempts to resolve that problem. This happens in several phases.

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How Long Will Your Book Be?

Right now I’m editing a novel that is about 200,000 words long but her agent wants the book to be closer to 100,000 words, so

Analyze Your Audience Part 3

I mentioned in yesterday’s post three elements common to all of the bestselling movies and books of all time–the fact that ALL of them are

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