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37 Grammar Rules You Ain’t Got – Infographic…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Grammar tips from Content Equals Money!
Back to Basics on Backstory…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Extract from an article by Jennie Nash, on The Book Designer Site: My mission as a book coach is to help writers write the best books they can, which means paying attention to: The macro elements (the story or argument the book makes) The micro elements…
EDITING 101: 17 – Powerful Protagonists…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing Powerful Protagonists The protagonist is the chief actor, or main character, in your book. It might be a man…
The #1 Way to Write Intense Story Conflict
Originally posted on CKBooks Publishing:
K.M. Weiland has a wonderful blog for writers, if you haven’t already seen it. In this post she talks about how writers make readers care about what is going on in a story, which should be a lot of conflict or things that get in the protagonist’s way of their…
EDITING 101: 16 – Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones I had a lot of fun researching today’s post. (Yes, I’m an über-geek, but let’s…
7 Tips for Naming Your Characters
Originally posted on J. Young-Ju Harris:
Naming characters is an important part of character creation. It determines how your characters will be known moving forward. Some people find this aspect of the character creation phase to be very easy or mostly intuitive. For those of you who don’t, here are some of my suggestions on…
EDITING 101: 15 – Self-Editing Part 3…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing Self-Editing Part 3 If you missed them, you can find Self-Editing Part 1 HERE and Self-Editing Part 2 HERE. This…
My Ingredients for a Series – Guest Post…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
The Preparation Method I know right away or before the first book is finished whether or not it’ll be a series. For instance, in “Beyond the Colored Line” (Book 2 in The Stella Trilogy), Joseph and his brother Edward come to blows in their mother’s…
EDITING 101: 14 – Self-Editing Part 2…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing Self-Editing Part 2 Last week in Self-Editing Part 1 we talked about some specific tasks that can be done while self-editing.…
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