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Fantastic Terminology

One of the great challenges in the depiction of worlds and phenomena distant from reality as we know it is mastering the art of the coinage. It’s not easy; take it from a writer who’s struggled with it...

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A Second Life for a First Novel, Using Professional Editors

Anyone paying attention knows that the book publishing industry is undergoing tremendous change.  The result is that a book you see on the shelf of a bookstore, or at a reading, may have been produced...

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Cliffhangers – Good Idea or Not?

This article reviews the different types of unresolved endings to novels, why readers sometimes do not like them and discusses how to best handle unresolved endings to make readers happy.

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New Year, New Writing Exercises

  My fingers are buzzing with anticipation. Now that the holidays are over, I can get back to uninterrupted writing (relatively speaking). And every year, every week, every day, my goal is to get just...

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Grab That Idea Before It Gets Away!

Ideas for writing stories, long or short, are literally everywhere. Sometimes they jump right out at you, but other times you have to look for them. And you ALWAYS have to write them down!

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The Pros and Cons of Head Hopping

This article reviews some of the main types of point of view in fiction and considers the pros and cons of head hopping among point of view characters within a scene.

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The Most Important Words You’ll Ever Write

A writer's time is her most precious commodity. Save a bundle of it in one easy step.

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Delivering Emotional Punches in Writing

Writing emotionally-charged scenes through pacing, sentence and paragraph structures, word choices and dialogue.

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Audience Participation

     These days, a writer who allows it will get plenty of feedback from his readers. I encourage it; it helps me to know what I’m doing badly, what I’m doing well, and what I could try that I haven’t...

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Identifying and Avoiding Deus Ex Machina

This article reviews what deus ex machina means, identifies examples of deus ex machina, explains why readers do not like deus ex machina, and considers whether all unsatisfying endings are deus ex...

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