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When Writers Err Too Heavily on the Side of Drama and Conflict
Much of writing advice boils down to: add more conflict. Make sure there’s tension, increase the suspense, ask new questions when you resolve the old ones, and always, always complicate matters. Don’t...
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What’s Your Genre? A High-Level Overview for Writers
by Paulo Slachevsky | via Flickr Note from Jane: Today’s post is an excerpt from Green-Light Your Book: How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing by Brooke Warner (@brooke_warner). Before...
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Using Multiple Points of View: When and How Is It Most Effective?
Photo credit: silentinfinite via Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-SA Today’s guest post is an excerpt from Writing the Intimate Character by Jordan Rosenfeld (@JordanRosenfeld), published by Writer’s Digest...
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How to Make Readers Deeply Connect to Your Characters
Photo credit: Pak Gwei via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-SA Today’s guest post is an excerpt from Hack Your Reader’s Brain by novelist Jeff Gerke (@JeffGerke). There is one secret ingredient to crafting a...
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How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and...
Photo credit: jan buchholtz via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND Today’s post is adapted from The Emotional Craft of Fiction (Writer’s Digest Books) by agent Donald Maass (@DonMaass). There are three primary...
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