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  What Is The Ideal Length For My Novel?

  It may seem strange to ask the question ‘how long should my novel be?’ Surely a novel should be as long as it needs to be to tell the story? While this may be true in some...

  • Posted January 14, 2016
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  What Makes A Bestseller?

  Is there really key to writing a bestselling book? Well the answer is both yes and no. While, of course there are no guarantees, there has been a lot of research done around this idea, and in...

  • Posted January 6, 2016
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  5 Tips On Writing Great Dialogue

  One of the biggest problems fiction writers face is when trying to write dialogue. Great dialogue is so important in writing, it brings characters to life, it drives the plot forward, and presents exciting information to the...

  • Posted December 23, 2015
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  Past Or Present Tense – The Pro’s and Cons

  When creating any new piece of writing, selecting the tense in which to write is often something an author struggles with. Not long ago writing in the past tense was strongly favoured, and particularly with works of fiction...

  • Posted December 18, 2015
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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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  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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  Getting Back to Writing After A Long Break

  Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! If you’ve taken a hiatus from writing for whatever reason and are feeling some anxiety about getting back into the game, don’t worry. It’s a perfectly natural feeling, but...

  • Posted September 16, 2015
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  Adding Tension to Your Novel Writing

  Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! I hope I don’t need to tell you why you need tension in your novel. Every story, regardless of genre, needs to ooze with tension. Why? Because tension determines...

  • Posted June 1, 2015
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  Writing With Every Sense But What You See

  Share, Pin or Retweet if you love writing! The smell of incense is thick and heady, mingling with the hours-old scent of burnt toast. Outside, it’s quiet except for the shrill yap of a dog or the...

  • Posted March 27, 2015
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  Should You Use An Omniscient Narrator?

  Share, Pin or Retweet This Post If You Like Writing! Partway through writing my first novel, I had a terrifying realization: I needed an omniscient narrator. My novel was about a family paralyzed by secrets, where every...

  • Posted March 24, 2015
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