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7620 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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81How to Use Microsoft One Note to Organize Novel Notes
Acer Aspire One by Robert A. Sloan. Ink and watercolor in 5" x 8 1/2" Moleskine watercolor journal. Back in the day, novelists used typewriters. Sometimes they were portable and sleek, the one I had in high...
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82How 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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77How to Write a Good Fantasy Novel
With the popularity of successful fantasy novels, such as Lord of the Rings, and currently the Eragon series, many authors have began to write fantasy novels. There have been amazing epics that have...
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77My Passion For Writing
Since I can remember I've always loved writing. At school my stories were often read to the class, and while I wasn't the most 'classical' of writers, I always managed to write a good story and always had...
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82How to use First Person, Second Person or Third Person in Novel Writing
First person shows a scene from within one character’s point of view as if the character’s telling the story about something he or she experienced. Second person is a “game master voice” describing...
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80How 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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82How 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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76Some Nanowrimo Tips
My novel's protagonists are cats. Picture this cat black rather than white and you have one of them when he grows up. Norwegian Forest Cat ACEO by Robert A. Sloan My novel, Magic in the Streets, is 4/5ths of...
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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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