Whether you are new to writing or an old pro, brushing up on the basics is always helpful. Because no matter how GOOD the story is? If the reader is busy stumbling over this stuff, it ruins the fictive dream and she will never GET to the story. So today we are going to cover …
Category: Writing Tips
May 13 2016
Making Fiction Come Alive! Using the Senses for Maximum Impact
Anything that talks to our senses feels a lot more real to us. It is through senses that we experience our entire world. We crave sensory experiences.
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May 09 2016
How to Create Legendary Villains
When the reader sees the duality of the villain, she is also seeing the duality in herself. That is the part that can be deeply disturbing.
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May 02 2016
5 Reasons Your Story is Stuck
If you’ve been writing any amount of time you have been there—THE SUCK. This is where no matter how hard you try, you just cannot seem to move your story forward.
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Apr 29 2016
How Strong is Your Dialogue? How to Fix Common Dialogue Problems
For my regular peeps, you probably know about my favorite hostage guest contributor, blogger Alex Limberg. Today, he shines his spotlight at some basic dialogue problems we all know in one form or another. Dialogue is one of the most powerful tools for storytelling. Dialogue is the difference between a cast of talking heads versus …
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