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All posts tagged "advice for writers"
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Get Better At Organizing And Become A Productive Writer
Writers are not often naturally organized creatures, however learning how to be so can be invaluable when it comes to improving your writing and becoming more successful. You might think ‘but why?’ Writing is surely all about...
- Posted January 20, 2017
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How To Write Outside Your Comfort Zone
It’s always good to experiment with your writing, and learning how to push those boundaries and write outside your comfort zone can lead you down many interesting paths. Of course, writing outside your comfort zone is easier...
- Posted January 19, 2017
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Why Do So Many Books Fail?
The majority of books that are written are hardly read by anybody. This may seem a little depressing, but it is the unfortunate truth. Think of all the millions of books that are out there. How many...
- Posted January 19, 2017
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How To Create A Plot Twist That Will Shock Your Readers
When you are approaching the end of a novel, there is nothing better than suddenly everything you thought you knew being turned on its head. You were expecting the protagonist journey to go a certain way, but...
- Posted January 18, 2017
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Does Your First Chapter Make A Good Impression?
Your first chapter is arguably the most important chapter of your book. This is the one that publishers will read and decide whether your book is worth paying more attention to, and one that your readers will...
- Posted January 17, 2017
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Why You Can’t Finish Your Writing
Are you the kind of writer that has tonnes of brilliant ideas? One who starts writing full of energy and bubbling with excitement about your story? One who gets a few chapters in and then starts to...
- Posted January 17, 2017
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How To Make Every Scene In Your Novel Count
If you really think about it, your novel is just a compilation of scenes that, when read together, tell your story. If your scenes flow into one another and complement one another (with the help of a...
- Posted January 14, 2017
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It’s Time To Take Your Writing (And Yourself) Seriously
There are so many writers out there that keep their writing, and the fact that they love it, as a deep, dark shameful secret that they don’t want anyone to know about. By pretending that we are not...
- Posted January 13, 2017
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Achievable Writing Goals For 2017
Every writer needs goals. Goals help us to keep writing, to stay focused and to set deadlines for ourselves. The start of a new year is a great time to assess how your writing is going, how...
- Posted January 12, 2017
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Embrace Your Failures And Become A better Writer
Writing is full of failures. Failure to meet deadlines failure to achieve your word count, failure to get an agent or publisher. In fact, I think it is pretty reasonable to say that there is no writer...
- Posted January 11, 2017