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Six Essential Requirements for a Successful Story.

So, you want to write a mystery or maybe a fantasy, or are you hankering after creating a block-buster romance? No matter what your chosen genre, you're attempting to write a novel. Writing is your...

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Think Harry Potter73

Seven Important Considerations for Your Novel?

Both character and plot are essential to a book, of course. Without both in balance there can be no successful story. However, the principal ingredient, the one component that is absolutely critical in...

10 comments    arts writing books
Rules and damn rules81

Revealed - 12 Important Points of Dialogue

Rules for writing are sometimes bent a little, and sometime broken .... but only by the reckless, feckless, or by those who understand exactly what they're doing and why.2. Talent.To succeed at writing it...

7 comments    writing books creative writing
Balancing that story75

Form and Proportion in your novel

All stories, whether short or blockbusting must have form and proportion. The story must maintain equilibrium. Write a story that is in balance and it can be exquisite, get it wrong and things start to look...

0 comments    writing creative novel
Polish that novel77

20 Top Tips for Editing that Novel

For most of us, the intial rush of words and ideas that come with a new story are ephemeral. They need to be logged before they disappear, because no matter what we think, disappear they will. Record that...

11 comments    writing books creative writing
Conflict doesn't have to mean fighting81

How to create conflict in a novel

In creative writing, there are no hard and fast rules to finding success. If such rules existed, every wannerby-writer would now be on the best-seller list. However, there are certain conventions that...

3 comments    writing book story
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WITHOUT REPROACH Virtual Book Tour

Author of the novel, WITHOUT REPROACH (book identification, ISBN 1905988257 ) as he tours the blogosphere on his first virtual book tour. Anthony was a process control engineer with an international...

0 comments    online recreation books
Stephenie Meyer69

Best Seller for a Day

I'd been reading about her you see. In fact I'd already written a blog about her a few hours earlier. That, and the release of Breaking Dawn, the new book in her Twilight series of vampire romances, made me...

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Make sure you're prepared for an interview about your book

Don't get caught with your pants down.... not like me. The telephone jangled, the person at the other end was more jaunty than anyone deserved to be at that time in a morning. "What's this book of yours...

0 comments    writing book novel
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