Category: writing
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Character Needs: The Need for Security
Another post on character needs, extracted from Character Fiction 101: How to Write Fictional Characters and Character Stories. Today, the need for security, which played […]
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Writing Likable Characters
Says children’s-book author Elise Broach in a recent blog post about likable characters, “Nothing in a story keeps readers as enthralled as a character who […]
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Character Needs: The Need for Attention
I’m posting a series on character needs, extracted from Character Fiction 101: How to Write Fictional Characters and Character Stories. I’m starting with the need […]
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Feedback as a Writer
I ran across this post about how important feedback is to a writer, by the pseudonymous “Frootbat31” on her blog A Writer’s Journey. She makes […]
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Character Fiction 101: Table of Contents
I’m working on an ebook, entitled Character Fiction 101: How to Write Fictional Characters and Character Stories. I plan to give the ebook away for […]
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Ever To Be an Aspiring Author
Lazette Gifford, author of Return to Redlin and other ebooks and novels, wrote a couple days ago about the most important writing rule: “You must […]
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So, How Do YOU Research?
In a famous display of writer’s integrity, guts, and stupidity, Harlan Ellison joined a street gang to research his first novel. Yikes. Talk about writing […]
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Everything’s a Metaphor—7 Ways to Build Meaning into Your Story
I should begin by clarifying what I mean by “metaphor.” I do not mean abstract symbolism that you force the reader to dig through, so […]
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Negative Reviews May Be Good for Your Book
Thanks to Bill Morris of The Millions for this link to a paper, published in Marketing Science (v. 29 n. 5, September-October 2010), “Positive Effects […]
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Getting Published Ain’t So Great, Either
As if to balance my post earlier this week about indie author pains, Mary DeMuth writes about 7 publishing myths on Novel Journey. She includes […]
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