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How To Plan Your Writing
Good writing is usually writing that is well planned. However liberating and wonderful it can feel to simply sit down and just write if you want to create a well-crafted story with just the right mix of...
- Posted May 10, 2017
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How To Create A Useful Outline For Your Story
Research and planning are crucial to any story, and before you even begin you should already have an outline written down. An outline acts as the roadmap for your story, keeps you on the straight and narrow...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Don’t Forget About Your Secondary Characters
For many writers much of their story is focused on their protagonist - this is the main character in your novel, the one whose journey we follow throughout, the one we are most invested in, and the...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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8 Tips To Instantly Improve Your Writing
When it comes to improving our writing there is always more to learn. Be it understanding how to structure a plot, how to write great characters or simply how to get stuff done, there is always more we...
- Posted May 3, 2017
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Can You Have Too Many Characters In Your Book?
It is natural when writing a story to include many different characters, from your protagonist whose journey readers will follow throughout, to sub characters who play a more minor, but still important role, to those who appear...
- Posted May 3, 2017
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What Will A Good Editor Do For Your Book?
Many self-published authors find it difficult to decide whether to hire a book editor to go through their manuscript before they publish. On the one hand, it seems like a good idea and will hopefully ensure your...
- Posted May 2, 2017
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How To Make Your Writing Tighter, Clearer and Better
When it comes to editing your manuscript, it is important to pay attention to how your writing flows. Your reader should be able to read your book without effort. If your writing is confusing, wordy or awkward...
- Posted May 2, 2017
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How to Get a Self-Published Book Into A Library
If you are a self-published author you’ll no doubt be trying to market your book in every way you can. Getting your book to as many readers as possible is, after all, the ultimate goal. While approaching...
- Posted April 28, 2017
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How To Make Your Writing More Dramatic
Injecting drama into your writing is so important. If you don’t you are simply telling your readers about a sequence of events where perhaps nothing really happens - there is no excitement, there are no surprises. Dramatic...
- Posted April 27, 2017
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How To Get More People To Read Your Book
Marketing your book is arguably one of the hardest things an author has to do. For many authors, while they feel comfortable writing their stories, editing them and finding the best way to publish them, when it...
- Posted April 26, 2017
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How To Handle Criticism
One of the hardest parts of being a writer is facing criticism of our work. It’s one of those quite odd things when you think about it. You would happily sit through a meal someone had slaved...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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How To Set Great Writing Goals
When it comes to your writing, setting achievable yet challenging goals will help to keep you focused, track your progress and keep you motivated when it comes to reaching your end goal. ‘That might be all well and...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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How To Resurrect An Abandoned Story
We all have them, you know, those half-finished stories that lie crumpled at the back of a draw, or, (more likely these days) in a folder within a folder within a folder hidden in the depths of...
- Posted April 23, 2017
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How To Write A Helpful Book Review
Writers need to help one another out, and where they can do so, with very little effort on their part, is by writing each other book reviews. Whether you have been asked to critique a fellow writer's...
- Posted April 23, 2017
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