Helping Writers Become Authors

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Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)


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Why Character Stereotypes Are a Good Thing

Stereotypes can be successfully applied in two ways: we can use them and we can play off them.

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Daydream or Die!

As writers, the one thing we can’t afford is not to daydream.

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Are You Using Too Many Settings?

Tips for distilling your settings to the perfect number.

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Does Your Story Have the Extraordinary Factor?

Finding perfect harmony between ordinary and extraordinary will produce just the right about of conflict between the character and his setting.

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What a Mouse Can Teach You About Story Arc

This charming little story features almost all of the important tenets of a story arc.

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Rewriting Made Easy

Rewriting can be both fun and easy. Following are some of the tricks I’ve learned along the way.

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15 Lessons From the Masters

When authors whose stories have impacted the world start talking, we start listening. Take a look at the following collection of wisdom on a myriad of writing topics. Be instructed, and be inspired!

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Three Words That Kill Writing Procrastination

At times, procrastination can seem like an incurable disease. Fortunately, however, I have an infallible solution, and it can be summed up in three little words.

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Why You Should Steal From Other Authors

Just as we light our own torches from the fires of other authors, our own ideas will throw sparks onto the tinder of others’ imaginations.

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