Writing Prompt: Objects You Pass Daily

Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: List at least a dozen objects yo…

Inventing Reality Editing Service

Someone was having an existential crisis and insisted I must stop everything to scritch him.

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Getting in a twist with your twists?

I found this helpful:

Designing thriller and mystery twists that work. Samantha Skal

https://janefriedman.com/designing-thriller-and-mystery-twists-that-work/

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Designing Thriller and Mystery Twists That Work | Jane Friedman

Twists feel “twisty” because the author has carefully engineered the story to mislead readers via the protagonist’s journey and assumptions.

Jane Friedman

Happy NaNoWriMo, fellow 'wrimos!

Whether you're aiming for 50k words or something smaller, or being a NaNo Rebel, or doing reverse NaNo; however you are getting words on the page this month, I wish you all the best of luck!

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The perils of being a pantster vs. a plotter: You're writing like crazy and the words are flowing smooth as silk when you come to the sudden realization that you forgot an entire scene, so you bring your momentum to a screeching halt and double-back and grumble and start adding stuff because you're a pantster and not a planner.

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I've created a list of characters for my next novel.
Now I need to give them something to do.
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I've passed 75,000 words on the WIP. With my previous novels, this is the point where I would start wrapping things up. But there's so much more story to tell; this draft could crack 90k words. Which leaves plenty of fat to cut.
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