Tag: novel writing
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Short Story
Prompt: Author writes his own murder before it happens. “Yah, yah, yah.” I drawl to my editor who has been hounding me all month about my new project. He’s been practically down on his knees, begging for even just a chapter to show the publishing team. “I’ll send it to you when its ready, John.”…
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Quality Over Quantity: In Writing
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca We hear this old phrase often and in regards to a variety of life’s aspects. The most common instance perhaps is pointed at the type of company one keeps, going along with “I’d rather have a few best friends, then a hundred friends I…
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Is Said Dead?
If you are a writer to any capacity, you will have no doubt heard the phrase “said is dead”. This is reference to the boring and repetitiveness of writing a dialogue where every line is literally ‘said’ from one character to the next. In our current day, where time seems to be the most precious…
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25 Days Later…
A Life update: *low whistle* well, we made it. We made it to Washington and to the house we fought so hard to get. Let me tell you, it was well worth all the headache and frustration. Our new house is immaculate! It is a roomy 3 bedroom, 2 and a half bath, two story…
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Openings
We all know that the first lines of a story needs to leave an impact. They need to pull the reader in and make them want to stay, make them want to stick around and see what happens. There is a number of ways that an story can start. A hook can be a fight,…
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* distain
Sooo sick and tired of the waiting game that oh so lovingly accompanies a military move. For anyone who has not been through any kind of military move, just know the PG version of this the phrase to my left is thrown in your face as a sort of shrug. Order selection can take a…
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Novel Research
Definitely not the type of person to think that I know everything, but the amount of research I’ve done so far for this novel has kind of surprised me. The story I’m writing is set around the late 18th century. It is a fantasy world, but relates to our world for most things. The moon…
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Page 22
Started on page 22 of my attempted novel today. I really hate to sound trepidatious, but writing has been going pretty smooth. Like too, smooth. Like I feel that there should be some other struggle than having to stop writing only to empty my bladder again. With that said, I know that the ‘hit a…
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Writing: POV
The point of view (POV) that a writer chooses for their work is determined by several factors. Genre, or the type of writing, being the main one and how the context of the writing needs to be conveyed to the reader comes in second. There are three main types of writing POV’s to consider. Which…
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Book Writing
Writing a book is one of the most emotionally confusing and mentally exhausting undertaking one can make. As I was packing, I found a very rough draft of a short story I started years ago as part of a creative writing class stuck in a box of things to forget. I read through the draft…
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Write. Read. Repeat. 