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4 Tricks for Picking the Perfect Word
How do we know which word is the “right” word?
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Is Your First-Person Narrator Overpowering Your Story?
Let’s take a look at some of the common pitfalls of the first-person narrator and how to avoid them.
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Are Happy Endings a Must?
To cap every story with a happy ending is dishonesty to both ourselves and our readers.
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The Kung Fu Panda Guide to Writing Action Scenes
You need to understand the basics of this integral type of scene if you’re going to blind readers from overexposure to your action awesomeness.
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The Secret Ingredient of Original Stories
Sometimes the more we try to be original, the more hackneyed our stories end up sounding.
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Ideas for Constructing Your Own Writing Routine
What techniques are most useful for making the most of your daily writing time?
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Understanding – and Accepting – the Reasons You Write
Why do you write? Simple question that it is, it can be surprisingly difficult to answer.
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What Is a 50-Page Edit… and Why Will It Rock Your Story?
The 50-page edit centers us in our story, reminds us of what we’ve already written, and keeps us on track for the next 50 pages.
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How Not to Use Speaker Tags and Action Beats
Don’t jeopardize your characters’ witty dialogue with punctuation and stylistic mistakes.
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