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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 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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  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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  What Do Publishers Really Want?

  Understanding what publishers really want isn’t as easy as one might think. Many writers believe they have a fantastic story within them, and if you are writing purely for your own pleasure, or simply have a need...

  • Posted December 7, 2015
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  How To Finish Your Novel

  Writing a novel is a time consuming, laborious process that takes passion, creativity, energy and hard work. It’s real blood, sweat and tears stuff that can see us waking in the night in a cold sweat, muttering...

  • Posted November 30, 2015
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  Tips on How To Bring Order To Your Writing

  Writing is often a chaotic and messy process. Often we have so many ideas that we end up drowning in a pile of half written sentences, scraps of paper, and middle of the night thoughts that we...

  • Posted November 19, 2015
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• What Makes Writers Write?

  Writing is a torturous and glorious process. It hurts and satisfies, exasperates, frustrates, and pleases. It makes us feel on top of the world one day, and completely miserable the next. It sees us staring at walls...

  • Posted November 13, 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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  Ways to Accidentally Kill Off Your Characters in Fiction

  Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! When you’re writing a character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, and one of the most impactful...

  • Posted July 16, 2015
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