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How to self-edit your draft

by WW Office Source link Your draft is finished. It’s both a high and a process reaching this point, so congratulations! Self-editing – being able to deconstruct your draft – is the next natural part of writing and is vital in getting your novel elevated … Continue reading →

Review: Water and Air by Neill

by John Staughton Source link ★★★★★ We all wish to have the strength to find our own inner happiness and the peace we require to survive and thrive. However, there are times in life when we need a nudge in the right direction, or a calming whisper in our ear.…

Story climax examples: Writing gripping build-ups

by Jordan Source link Sometimes we overstate the importance of ‘climax’ in a story. After all, some novels end with anti-climax. Bret Easton Ellis even ends a novel mid-sentence. All the same, knowing how to create a gripping build-up is useful, especially if you’re writing a fantasy or thriller. Here are tips gathered from explorings

Flog a BookBubber 114: Cheryl Bradshaw

by Ray Rhamey Source link Please, please visit my Kickstarter page for my new game, FlipIt. It goes Scrabble one better in terms of challenge and fun. Even if you can’t support it, please pass the link on to friends and family. Thanks for your help. Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for as

How to Align Your Writing with Your Client’s Marketing Goals

by Abass Sahrawi Source link Let me take a wild guess: you want to impress your client, add value for your readers and charge more, right? But first off, do you have any idea why you’re reading this article right now? Do you know the “secret sauce” of epic content? Here’s the thing: one ofs

The Maze And The Magic Cupboard

by terribleminds Source link Sometimes, there comes a time when authors tweet. Sometimes, those authors are Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig. Sometimes, someone collects those tweets into a big pile of tweets — or whatever the collective noun is for tweets, a tortle of tweets or a twibble or a twain maybe — and thens

The First Line Calls for Fiction Submissions for Winter 2017 Issue – Pays up to $50/story

by Brian Scott Source link Blue Cubicle Press, LLC is reading submissions for another issue of The First Line (est. 1999), a quarterly print literary journal that helps writers ignite their creativity. The new “first… ***

Don’t Leave A Word Misspelled

by JW Source link Don’t leave a word misspelled [in your script]. With spell-check programs on most computers, it is easier to produce perfect, clean scripts. But you still have to read every word carefully. It’s a safe bet that a script will be rejected if it has half a dozen typos or other errors in the first ten pages. If you don’t care enough to make it clean, the rest of us don’t waste time reading it. The same goes for grammar. No excuses here. TONY BILL

Poetry Prompts for Fall

by Melissa Donovan Source link Poetry prompts celebrating the fall season. It seems like summer always passes too quickly and winter lasts too long. Maybe that’s why fall is a favorite season for so many people. It seems to hang around just long enough. It’s not too hot, not too cold. A mild, colorful, ands

Holiday Writing Prompt: The 12 Steps of the Turkey Hero’s Journey

by David Safford Source link I love Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s the idea that every hero, and hero’s journey, uses many of the same characters, symbols, and themes. So in honor of Thanksgiving, let’s write a story with the Noble Gobbler in the role of the hero, or Pro-turk-onist! He cans