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Trusting your reader
Trusting our readers to understand overall themes and meanings of stories.
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Jan 93 min read
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Arts and Science: Yin and Yang
Arts and science are seen as opposites - one side is emotional and subjective, the other cool and rational. There's some truth in that,...
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Apr 12, 20242 min read
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Making a Scene: Summary versus In-Scene Writing
Should you stay in the moment, or should you pull back to a summary of generalities? A good scene stays close to a viewpoint character...
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Oct 18, 20233 min read
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Driving your story
“Make your characters want something right away, even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...
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May 26, 20233 min read
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First things first
If you want a particular closeness to a character and their experiences, first-person viewpoint can help. And the first thing to do in...
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Jan 20, 20233 min read
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Creating a killer opening
We know that the first line, paragraph or scene of a book is so important, but how can writers hook their readers and have them turning...
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Nov 24, 20223 min read
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Virtual Write Club November–December 2022
We've already started! Last Wednesday we tried something a bit different – a few live writing exercises to fix specific issues in my...
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Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Virtual Write Club September—October 2022
What can I say? Life's been a bit hectic, what with beating myself up on a canyoning adventure on holiday, and talking myself to death at...
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Sep 15, 20221 min read
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