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81Six 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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7820 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...
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85400 Alternative words for said
Said, said, said! Does the word 'said', drive you mad? Is it your dream, your fantasy to write a story? Do you have a book in your head, but 'said' gets in the way? Books are what drive most authors...
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83How 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...
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68Seven 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...
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72Revealed - 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...
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70HubPages or Associated Content? Which is best?
I’m a bit of a cynic – I admit it. I don’t take things on board lightly – a bit conservative in my outlook if you like. I was probably the last person in the world to purchase a mobile phone (9...
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64Book Publicity and the Shy Author
Publicity, publicity, publicity. I hate the damn word. I'm an author not a publicist. Being a publicist is a specialized job. I don't do publicist. I'd written the damn novel, why did I have to do book...
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60Make 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...
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63Best 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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