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All posts tagged "advice for writers"

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  How To Create Great Characters For Your Novel

  One of the most important ingredients when writing a novel is creating brilliant characters, ones who appeal to your reader, who they can engage and identify with, who excite them, scare them, or make them angry, happy...

  • Posted December 16, 2015
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  5 Ways A Writer Can Optimize Social Media

  Hello, and welcome back to Writer's Life! Today, I'd like to discuss with you 5 ways a writer can optimize social media. These tips and tricks will help you grow your network, help establish & maintain your...

  • Posted December 16, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To Handling Success

  As writers, we frequently deal with the sting of rejection, from agents (sometimes by the dozens) who politely—or not so politely—decline our query letters to 1-star reviews or negative commentary in blogs or social media. When we...

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  5 Tips To Create A Brilliant Novel

  To create a brilliant novel you need to tell a brilliant story. It really is as simple as that. 'But how?!' We hear you cry. Telling a great story comes down to 5 simple rules. If you...

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Using The Hero’s Journey To Organize Your Writing

  Hello and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, we’ll be looking at using the Hero’s Journey to organize your writing. The Hero’s Journey is a plotting device adapted from Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero with a...

  • Posted December 11, 2015
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  How Book Advances Work – An Easy To Follow Guide

  Being accepted by a publisher or literary agent is incredibly exciting, and a dream come true for many writers. However whether you are new to the process, or have had work published before, you will soon realise...

  • Posted December 11, 2015
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  How To Write Great Feature Articles

  If you are hoping to make money from writing feature articles you need to understand how. If you become great at writing feature articles, and get a consistent flow of work,  can make you a healthy and...

  • Posted December 10, 2015
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  Using Nine-Cube Plotting To Organize Your Writing

  Hello and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, we’ll be looking at using nine-cube plotting to organize your writing. Nine-cube plotting—sometimes called Rubik’s cube plotting—is a way to organize the action of your fiction or creative non-fiction...

  • Posted December 9, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To FocusWriter And Write

  Hello, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today’s final installment in this series is a writer’s guide to FocusWriter and Write, two tools available to Android or PC users. As I noted with the Ulysses and Storyist...

  • Posted December 7, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To Google Docs

  Hello again, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, I will be presenting a writer’s guide to Google Docs, the free online word processing application from Google. As before, I will go over some ways to set...

  • Posted December 4, 2015
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