Strive for Originality when Writing Fiction

When writing fiction, you want to be original; that is, your plot, characters, setting and ideas should be fresh or novel (no pun intended).After all, to some degree, you decided to start writ…

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10 posts published by Rob Bignell during December 2016

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Strive for Originality when Writing Fiction

When writing fiction, you want to be original; that is, your plot, characters, setting and ideas should be fresh or novel (no pun intended).After all, to some degree, you decided to start writ…

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8 Tips to Make Your Writing More Vivid

• Don’t leave reader in fog with vague descriptions• Use concrete details• Examples of “concrete details”• Use sensory details rather than internalized ones• Appeal to sense of so…

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Last Step in Writing: Place Book in Final Form

Generally when putting together a book or any other publication, writers follow a process that typically includes brainstorming (coming up with the story idea), outlining, writing a first draft, an…

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Utilize Plot Device to Move Story Forward

If uncertain how to advance your story, you may want to employ a plot device. Also known as a plot mechanism, plot devices are any element that moves a story forward. For example, if the main …

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Why you should outline your short story/novel

Once you’ve come up with a great story idea, always take a good amount of time thinking about how it will unfold. You can do so by outlining the story.If you’re among those who eschew outlining, do…

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8 Tips to Make Your Writing More Vivid

• Don’t leave reader in fog with vague descriptions• Use concrete details• Examples of “concrete details”• Use sensory details rather than internalized ones• Appeal to sense of so…

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Consider sending your protagonist on an initiation

Among the most important events in our lives are various rites of passage – confirmation, high school graduation, drinking for the first time, obtaining a driver’s license, marriage, firstborn…

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Include clever in-jokes by tuckerizing

One way of rewarding the careful reader is by tuckerizing. This involves naming secondary characters or offstage icons after people or objects many readers would recognize as a sort of in-joke.For …

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