Jake Vander-Ark
Buy the book "Writing a Great Movie" by Jeff Kitchen. It's about screenplays, but it applies to novels too.
Do not write about what you know! Use your everyday life to make your stories honest, but do not write a book about your everyday life!
Finally, your English teachers were right... show, don't tell.
Do not write about what you know! Use your everyday life to make your stories honest, but do not write a book about your everyday life!
Finally, your English teachers were right... show, don't tell.
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What would you say to amateur writers beginning to write short story novels?
Marti
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Jake Vander-Ark:
I love your books. I just finished The Brandywine Prophet and I have a question. Now I lost lots of sleep staying up late so I know I missed some clues but I just have to have ONE thing explained....At the first Janie dies and at the end she is alive. Where did I miss it? My next one is Accidental Siren, I have already bought it.
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