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92How 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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81How 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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82How to Write a Novel in Six Months: One Writer’s Journey
Most of us who write on a regular basis (and many people who've never used a pencil for more than a grocery list) have the same dream: to write a novel. I'm no different. This fall I'm attempting [again] to...
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84The 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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85How to Write a Novel Synopsis
Blue Marble and Agate Slice still life in oil pastel by Robert A. Sloan. This still life is a study, simpler than a painting but showing that I can paint light falling through blue glass on a brown sliced...
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84How 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 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 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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79How 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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79How 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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