Writing Your Book/The Art and Practice of Writing Fiction

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Characters and How to Develop Them
Are your characters real or cardboard? Learn how to create vivid and compelling characters.
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Dialogue - What's That You Say
The issue of dialogue is important. Many modern novels are at least 30% dialogue - sometimes up to 70%. So while you want to keep your dialogue minima...
Location, Location, Location - Where to Set Your Stories for Best Effect - and Easier Writing!
When you write a book or story, you choose the setting, whether real or imaginery. This choice can make it easier or harder to write your story. Rea...
What Makes a Good Fiction Book?
How to write a book. Discover the three crucial elements to writing a good fiction book and improve your writing.
Author Jones reporting for duty. Author Jones speaks for all writers when Author Jones says you are lazy. Slap. Sometimes the truth stings like a ste...
Write a Bestselling Book About How to Write a Bestselling Book!
Have you ever seen those books that promise to teach you how to write a bestselling book? Some of these books are themselves bestsellers. In this tong...

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We're all perfectionists to some degree. Writer Cici Miller shares a few profound thoughts about the nature of perfection, especially as it pertains...
Like a great movie, the most energetic writing engages all 5 senses; smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. Put your readers smack dab in the middl...
Writing can be depressing, discouraging, frustrating, frightening, shall I go on? While most writers, even the successful ones, deal with these feel...
As the craft of writing has evolved, it has naturally formed the plot structure most pleasant to the human mind. This is the Three Act Structure, and ...
Do you have a short story to tell? Of course you do. There's not a single human alive who hasn't experienced one or more interesting, dramatic, or eve...
 


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