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Want to Write Great Fiction? Stop Using the “Logical” Side of Your Brain
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Lauren Sapala Every morning when I open my inbox a landslide of emails from the online writing community pour out. Blog posts, newsletters, classes and programs and retreats. And then I jump on social media and the wave continues: Advice and instructions on character development, plotting your plot,…
Don’t Forget Your Minor Characters!
Originally posted on Writing your first novel-Things you should know:
I’m in the revision process with my novel and one of the areas I am focusing on is character development. When you hear character development, you usually think of main characters or supporting characters. Well my main characters do need some work, but for this particular blog I was talking…
2 Tips For Introducing Your Protagonist
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Kathryn What’s wrong with this picture? ‘I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, find my big green eyes crusted with sleep. I brush my beautiful brown hair and check my flawless skin for pimples, but of course I don’t have any, so I don’t need…
Can A Writer Have Too Many Ideas?
Originally posted on Writer's Treasure Chest:
Picture courtesy of http://www.google.com ? ? I’m in fact a little curious how other writers are doing this… Do you ever feel like your head is bursting with all the ideas you got? How do you sort them out? How do you arrange them? ? Let’s say: you…
The Ultimate Character Questionnaire (156 questions)…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
This character questionnaire has been collated from a variety of sources. It has been split into categories to try to make it more manageable, but this categorisation is far from perfect and lots of the questions could probably be in more than one category. If…
5 Mistakes Authors Make on Social Media
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Michael Cristiano I thought writing a novel was the hard part. I thought endless drafting and editing and proofreading involved the most work when it came to being a writer. I was wrong. My debut novel has been on sale for a little less than a month, and I…
How & When to use Ellipsis / Ellipses – Infographic…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
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