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90How 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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82The 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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72How to Write a Novel in Six Months: Week 10 Drafting Update
I'm happy to report this week went very well. As is to be expected, there were new adjustments to the process this week, but overall I'm sticking to the plan. I finished up page 50 last night so that puts me...
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69How To Achieve Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Writing Success
Some writers struggle for decades, turning out novels, short stories, submitting to literary journals, agents and publishers, collecting small royalty payments here and there and working their 9 to 5 job for...
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82How 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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76How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week Seven: Detail Scene Beats
Detail scene beats? What is that supposed to mean? Okay, I admit I don't actually know what that means, but it's the way I'm describing the next layer after the initial outlining. We all know there's supposed...
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73How 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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83How to Write a Novel in Six Months, Week 2: Resources on Structure
Welcome to my journey from blank page to first draft of a novel in six months! I hope you'll find resources and inspiration here to help you realize your own dream of printing out a huge stack of paper that...
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52How to Participate in National Novel Writing Month
Most NaNoWriMo participants plan months in ahead to prepare for November. This means outlines, character profiles and other aids that will help them complete the task of writing 50,000 or more words in one...
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70How to write your first novel
What's In a Name? I remember back in grade school, a classmate of mine used to repeat my first and last name when addressing me. She would say, "Rose Scott Rose Scott Rose Scott," in quick rapid sessions. I...
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