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All posts tagged "novel writing tips"

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  How To Get Your Book into Bookstores

  If you have self-published your book, you may be wondering what to do next. Of course, there is nothing better for an author than seeing their work proudly displayed in a bookshop. Without a publishing house taking...

  • Posted March 3, 2016
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  How To Choose Your Author Name

  If you are hoping to have a long and lucrative career in writing you may have thought about whether to choose a pseudonym for your work. Many of the most well-known authors have used pseudonyms in the...

  • Posted February 1, 2016
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  5 Ways To Be More Creative

  Sometimes it is difficult to come up with new ideas, or to be imaginative and creative in your work, or in your life in general. Being creative and finding ways to express yourself creatively has been proven...

  • Posted January 8, 2016
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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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  Writing At Its Best Is A Lonely Life

  Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! Today is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway. In October of 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. But he didn’t exactly live every writer’s dream: First,...

  • Posted July 21, 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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  Should You Write Novels in Multiple POV?

  Share., Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! If you are itching to write in multiple POV or by using various points of view, STOP! Says Zen Scribe. It’s a risky proposition. It’s not a good idea...

  • Posted July 6, 2015
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  Never Submit Work Before It’s Ready

  Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! I hear from writers about their struggles all the live long day. Many problems (doubt, procrastination, perfectionism) have the same solution—it takes time, patience and practice to improve your craft. However, there’s one common...

  • Posted June 29, 2015
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