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47Write Your Novel From The Gut
"Ari on my knee" oil pastel 8" x 10" by Robert A. Sloan. My furry muse sheds virtual cat hairs of inspiration in your direction! People go into therapy to "get rid of their dirty laundry." Novelists wash...
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89How 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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75How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week 6: Outlining
Now's the time in the novel writing journey where I start to get really nervous. I stare at my stack of index cards terrified that what I've written are nothing more than a collection of stupid ideas that will...
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78How 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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71Fiction Writing(how to begin a novel)/Developing Characters
We are sitting down at the drawing board, this blank ominous space daring you to continue on with your endeavor. Let us, for the sake of spirit, start like we do not have any characters in mind. Since this is...
3 comments68Fiction 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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83101 Writing Prompts To Inspire You
Compiled here are 101 great ideas to get you inspired and working on your next writing project. Want to tell a story, but have no idea where to start? That’s where writing prompts come in. Think of it like...
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81How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week One: Mapping out the Six-Month Plan
I have read all kinds of books that tell you how to complete the first draft of a novel in this or that amount of time and while it all sounds very sound and logical, nothing ever really spoke to me. I tried...
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69How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week 4: Sketching Characters
I have to admit, this isn't my favorite week. For whatever reason, I have always been resistant to the idea of creating detailed character sketches. Even though I know it'll help, I still don't like to do it....
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83The Killer Guide To Writing Crime Fiction
So you've decided you want to write Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction is Plot Driven Types of Crime Fiction. Cosy Hardboiled Police Procedural Legal Future Hubs and community invite Before you go rushing off...
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