11 Must-Have Elements of Your Story’s Opening

As you write and edit your story’s opening lines, make sure they achieve the following:Use a Great Opening HookEstablish both conflict and mood in the very first sentence; focusing on conflict…

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Indie Authors: 5 Ways to Sell More Books This Year

• Get your book before potential buyers’ eyes• Give away valuable content to sell books• Utilize online storefronts to promote your book• Sell books by posting at high-traffic blogs• Sell your book…

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Indie Authors: 5 Ways to Sell More Books This Year

• Get your book before potential buyers’ eyes• Give away valuable content to sell books• Utilize online storefronts to promote your book• Sell books by posting at high-traffic blogs• Sell your book…

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Destage dramatic action that slows your story

If your story seems to be moving slowly, you may need to destage some of the action.A term borrowed from theater and coined by CSFW’s Steve Popkes, destaging occurs when the author moves what has b…

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Use Journaling to Develop Plots for Stories

One good way to come up with plot ideas is to journal about your personal problem.While journaling about an issue is a worthy writing exercise simply for catharsis, modifying how you journal l…

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Place ‘said’ after speaker’s name

Does placing said before or after attribution – as in Thales said or said Thales – matter?The answer in large part depends upon how it sounds in particular sentence. Given that, how a reader respon…

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Avoid reader confusion by anchoring story

Readers beginning a story need to know where and when the tale occurs. This establishment of the story’s place and time in the first few paragraphs of the story sometimes is referred to as anchorin…

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― Lisa See

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Five Great Quotations about Poetry

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, en…

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