Five Great Quotations about Novel Writing

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow“Every novel should have a beginnin…

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Five Great Quotations about Novel Writing

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow“Every novel should have a beginnin…

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How to Pen Engaging Dialogue for Your Story

No doubt your story will include dialogue in which characters speak to one another. Unfortunately, too many beginning writers drag their story into a furrow of tedium by poorly handling dialog…

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Five Great Quotations about Why We Write

“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.” – Anne Lamott“The purpose of…

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A negative view of your writing abilities never will lead to a positive manuscript.

When writing, do you ever find yourself asking, “What if nobody likes my book?”If you do, stop it! That’s really saying, “What if I don’t like my book?”After all, if you truly felt passionate not j…

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4 Great Tips to Beating Writer’s Block

• Coming up with an opening line• Change the world• Take your story forward• Go down another road

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Think of Plot as Set-up, Build-up, Pay-off

One way to think of a story’s plot is in three parts – the set-up, the build-up and the pay-off.The set-up is like the inciting incident. In addition to introducing the main character and the …

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Create playlist to write your story by

Create a “playlist” for your characters and story, selecting songs that help you get into your character’s frame of mind of the scene’s tone. Then play those songs as you write. Do you find th…

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11 Tips to Help You Avoid Telling Writing

• Avoid exposition (Show, don’t tell!)  Want to slow your story to a glacial grind and get readers to quit reading your story? Then load it with lots of exposition. Problems arising with expo…

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Five Great Quotations about Revising

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.” – Anton Chekhov“I have w…

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