Helping Writers Become Authors

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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Characters: Likability Is Overrated

June 28, 2009 Helping Writers Become Authors 04:54 Comments Off on Characters: Likability Is Overrated

Learn why readers connection with imperfection in characters, more than perfection.

Don’t Let the Big Words Die

June 21, 2009 Helping Writers Become Authors 05:49 Comments Off on Don’t Let the Big Words Die

How authors can encourage the growth of vocabulary and use it to enhance their writing.

Eliciting Emotion

June 14, 2009 Helping Writers Become Authors 06:42 Comments Off on Eliciting Emotion

Discovering what drives emotion in fiction and how to elicit it in readers.

Branded: Negotiating Consumerism in Fiction

June 7, 2009 Helping Writers Become Authors 05:39 Comments Off on Branded: Negotiating Consumerism in Fiction

Two reasons to avoid specifying common and popular consumer names in your fiction.

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