Rob Bignell's Blog, page 196

7 Great Tips to Create Conflict in Your Story

��� Focus on conflict in opening lines
��� Utilize both internal and external conflicts
��� Center on internal flaw for compelling story 
��� Use confidant to reveal hero���s inner turmoil
��� Develop complex antagonist to maximize conflict
��� Deliver thrusts and counterthrusts
��� Use man vs. man conflict in story
��� BONUS: "Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have." 

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5 Great Quotations for Aspiring Authors

���Write first, drink later. To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.��� - Patrick McGrath

���The less conscious one is of being ���a writer,��� the better the writing.��� - Pico Iyer

���Read great paragraphs until their rhythms get stuck in your head.��� - Lily Rothman

���Start writing, no matter what. The water doesn���t flow until the faucet is turned on.��� - Louis L���Amour

���The secret: Do good work and share it with people.��� - Austin Kleon

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"I write to find strength." - Rob Bignell

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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"I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me." - Hunter S Thompson

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Which is Right? All Ready vs. Already

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"What legacy does the story-illiterate leave? It is of a dry lake bed, nothing but salt and sand and rubble where nothing exists but emptiness." - Rob Bignell

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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14 Plot Pitfalls You Need to Avoid

��� Twist endings
��� Telling the backstory
��� Cookie cutter story
��� Stalling as approaching crucial event
��� Packing peanuts 
��� Bait-and-switch
��� Subjective tension
��� Histrionic exit
��� Reader cheating 
��� Inappropriate mystery to create suspense
��� Too many subplots
��� Literary dream 
��� Runaround error in story
��� Schizophrenic story
��� BONUS: "I don���t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of keeping readers reading." 

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5 Great Quotations about the Writing Process

���All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.��� - Neil Gaiman

���You have to go where the book leads you.��� - Stephen King

���When you write ��� explode ��� fly apart ��� disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.��� - Ray Bradbury

���It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.��� - Gertrude Stein

���I haven���t stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.��� - Irwin Shaw

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Editing client publishes debut romance novel

A recent editing client, Alex Bailey, has published her first romance novel, Once Upon a Romance.

When Sophie���s eight-year-old niece, Ariel, asks Santa Claus for a single wish to honor her mom���s memory, Sophie knows she must grant it. Unfortunately for Sophie, Ariel's wish is to ride her mom's favorite ride on Christmas day, and it���s at the last place on earth Sophie wants to visit ��� Walt Disney World. It will be the first Christmas without her sister, and reliving childhood memories of her best friend is not how she wants to spend her holiday. Sophie���s only desire is to spend Christmas on the slopes with her reliable and stable beau, Darren, who has reluctantly agreed to postpone their trip until the day after Christmas.

But when Sophie runs into a charming stranger, who offers up his extensive Disney knowledge, he instantly becomes her hero. A wave of relief washes over Sophie ��� he may just be the one to give Ariel the magical experience she desires. And, even though Sophie doesn���t realize it, he may be exactly what she needs too.

Once Upon a Romance is available online in paperback or ebook.

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