One Measly Hour Per Week . . . or the Easiest way to become an Author!
So you wanna be an author. Great! But you don't have the time to become an author. Single sad Indian tear rolling down upon they ...
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No other genre in all of fiction requires more crafty planning and cunning editing backtracking than the murder mystery. Pantsing here doesn...
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I believe that every person has at least one good novel in them begging for release if only they had the time and patience and the proper a...
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There is one and only one plot which exists in all of story. Not ten. Not twenty-one. ONE. Pick any play, any novel, any movie and they all...
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Nigel Watts wrote a little book called “Writing a Novel” as part of the Teach Yourself series of books that cover a wide variety of subject...
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I’m obsessed with plot. Have been for years. I stalk it at the grocery store. See it every time I close my eyes. Watch it lovingly from afa...
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“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” —Mark Twain. His point? Strong writing is lean writing....
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WAS is a hell of a word, an irritating prick potent in its venomous strike, cunning in its assassin’s delivery, its uncouth presence a ten...
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If you can’t pare your entire story down into one simple statement then you don’t understand what your story is really about. More importan...
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It's common practice for writers to begin their story world and all it entails with protagonist design: how tall or short they are, ho...
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“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Popularly credited to Ernest Hemingway, this six-word story is an extreme example of short fiction. ...