Don’t let characters chew the furniture

Among the biggest mistakes novice authors can make with their characters is having them over-emote their situations. When doing so, the writer is said to be making the craftsmanship error of “…

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20 Story Structure Frameworks: The Complete Guide for Fiction Writers - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

20 Plotting Methods Every Fiction Writer Should KnowTwenty story structure frameworks—from Aristotle's three acts to Kishōtenketsu—explained, compared, and demonstrated through speculative fiction case studies. The essential guide to plotting your novel.

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Wait to format text until editing is done

One rookie mistake made by many self-publishing authors is that they start formatting their manuscript before it is completed.  Formatting when writing to a small degree makes some sense.…

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Avoid Using Flashback as a Plot Gimmick

Sometimes when writing a story, the author needs to go outside of the timeline. When a scene is set during a time earlier than the main narration, the author is using a flashback.If you wrote …

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Writing Inspiration: Trigger your creativity

Do you feel unmotivated to write? As if you aren’t inspired anymore? Then ask what triggers you to write and place yourself in those situations that will flip your creativity’s on switch.Do yo…

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A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292?cmp=rss

On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Intelligence by Sarah Wooley

In 1944, the young Muriel Spark worked in the ‘Black Propaganda’ Department of MI6.

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Avoid Using Flashback as a Plot Gimmick

Sometimes when writing a story, the author needs to go outside of the timeline. When a scene is set during a time earlier than the main narration, the author is using a flashback.If you wrote …

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#OnThisDay World's first #Satellite navigation system (#NAVSAT) launched (1960).

Birth Anniversary of Samuel Beckett (1906) - Irish #Novelist, #Playwright, short story #Writer, theatre director and #Poet. He was awarded the 1969 #NobelPrize in #Literature.

Happy Birthday Garry Kasparov (1963) - former World #Chess #Champion, writer, and political #Activist.

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A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292?cmp=rss