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Critique Group (Extra) – The Unraveling of a Prince

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I am adding an extra piece to critique this week. Enjoy.

Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

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Developing Realistic Characters Part 2 – Guest Post by Pamela Collazos

[image error]Your characters are still giving you the cold shoulder, huh? Or worse, they’re only concepts floating around, ghost-like, too intangible to give you anything like a shoulder. Don’t worry! Try to flesh them out with these four functions before giving up entirely.

I wrote about the Jungian functions before, so check out part one of this blog post if you haven’t already. But as a quick refresher, the Jungian theory states everyone has eight functions, but some are more dominant than others and t...

Story Development – Heaven Came Down Part 1

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Critique Group – Don’t Look Back

[image error]I am recycling some of my critiquing memes. If you have good ones to share, let me know.

Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can co...

Developing Realistic Characters Part 1 – Guest Post by Pamela Collazos

[image error]Characters can be tricky to develop. Unless inspiration suddenly hits you like a truck, you probably find it difficult to create characters out of thin air. So don’t try! Choose something more concrete to work with. The thoughts in your head, the people you’ve met, and the characters you love can all inspire you to create interesting, new people. They’re all great ways to go, but there’s another powerful method I haven’t mentioned yet: psychology. That’s right, we’re getting into the squishy...

Critique Group Will Resume in January 2019

The Critique Group feature of this blog will resume in early January of 2019. In order to keep the group going, I need participation. If people comment on submitted excerpts, I will be glad to continue posting them. Let’s hope for a great renewal of this helpful (I hope) feature.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

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Narrative Fragments

[image error]A fragment is a phrase that poses as a sentence but is missing either a subject or a verb.

For example – “Went to the beach.”

This phrase has no subject. It doesn’t reveal who went to the beach. It is a fragment.

In recent years I have noticed an increase in the use of fragments in written storytelling. It has become popular as a narrative device because, or so the authors believe, it quickens the pace of the story and provides more of a stream-of-consciousness feel.

I think not, and I will e...

Critique Group Suspended

I was the only person who commented on the most recent critique group post. That must mean that the group has lost interest. I am suspending this feature for the time being.

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Critique Group – The Blind Seer (Rewrite)

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Maybe he can’t not file for the right to fervently appeal where he’s at?

Don’t forget the critiquing guidelines. All I ask is that you post a comment about the submission below. Don’t feel like you have to critique the whole piece. Even a short comment on one aspect can be helpful.

If you want to submit a manuscript for critique, please read the guidelines as well as this list of common mistakes to avoid before submitting.

This post will stay active indefinitely, so you can come back and add...

Critique Group – Stronghold (Dalia’s Story) Part 4

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So now you have a chance to rewrite it.