The world is filled with excellent writing advice. Write every day, write to make an impact, even write for yourself. But there are also a lot of amazing writing tips that are complete bogus. When I first got into writing, I admit, I fell for the old “write what you know” scam. I fell for […]
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No matter what genre you’re writing, if you’re writing fiction chances are at some point in time you have to write from the perspective of another gender. Okay, I grant you there may be some circumstances in which you don’t have to bother with it. Perhaps you’re writing a science fiction or fantasy novel set
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It doesn’t matter what type of novel you’re writing: science fiction, historical romance, paranormal, or epic fantasy. They all have one thing in common. They have to be believable. And to be believable, it needs to hold a degree of realism. Writing fiction grants you a lot of freedom. You can create worlds to be
So this morning, I got to wake up to the sounds of my cat under the bed. Puking. Doesn’t that sound lovely? And my two year old has discovered that she enjoys jumping on the bed. The only real problem with that is she usually gets my hair caught beneath her toes. My husband has
It is week two of NaNoWriMo and you are cranking. Are you wondering how you can keep this motivation rolling through the rest of the month?
Imagine you just had a great day. I mean a great day. The kind of day where you don’t even have to worry about how to motivate yourself because it just all comes naturally. Everything just happened to go right. Where by the end of the day, you’re excited and pumped. You sit down to
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Show, don’t tell. It’s on every writer’s blog, every cheat sheet, and every how-to-novel book out there. And it’s not horrible advice, until it is.
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What do you do when your beta readers hate your characters? And I don’t mean like they hate the characters they are supposed to hate because of what they did in the story — I mean when they tell you the character is a bad character. An unbelievable character, a flat character. A character they
Why is writing diversity so important? For one thing, unless the world you’re building happens to be the most boring world in the, well, world… chances are the world you’re building includes a diverse population. Diversity is the norm. And if you don’t believe me, just look around you. Check out the people in your
