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86How to use Past Tense, Present Tense and Future Tense in Novel Writing
One of the easy ways to tell beginner writing is that the story bounces from past tense through present tense and future tense at random. Unskilled writers who don't keep a consistent tense can confuse...
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73How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week 3, Index Cards Are My Friends
I have read in a lot of different places how great writers always have a post-it note or index card somewhere on them so that when brilliance strikes they are ready to record it. I have also read about and...
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64The boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne - Book Review
In the book " The boy in the striped pajamas" nine-year old Bruno, a boy in Berlin Germany during the war, enbarks on a journey to see how life really is on the other side of the fence...where he finds the...
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73Virginia Woolf's Night and Day (1919)
Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel Night and Day explores the finding of oneself through the forging of relationships. The ideas are explored mostly through the eyes of Catherine, but her friends offer us...
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71Dean Koontz Books, My Favourite Ten
Dean Koontz first came into my literary existance seventeen years ago when I came across a hardback book containing three of his novels:The Bad Place, Midnight and Lightening. I just couldn't understand why...
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63Review of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Young Adult Fiction novels; Fiction Books for Teens; Books for Teens; Susanne Collins
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74Fiction Writing(how to start your novel)-The Plot Thickens
Now we have a little background information about our hero and heroine, character A and B respectively, from Character Development. Now, we need to focus on building our storyline. You need to identify the...
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71Discovering Charles Morgan, a forgotten British author
Charles Morgan, the playwright and novelist, was a household name in the 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed an immense reputation in his lifetime, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1940. He...
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66Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn : Review
Timothy Zahn has in many ways served as a successor to Science Fiction grandmasters like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, combing Robert Heinlein's militarism and tales of adventure between the stars with...
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54The House at Riverton: Book Review
“The House at Riverton,” a novel by Australian-born Kate Morton, is the story of Grace, a young woman who works as a servant for the wealthy Ashbury family in pre-WWI England. Tragedy after tragedy...
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