When preparing to write a work of fiction, you need to do enough research to ensure that you get the facts accurate. Paint a broad picture, but don’t sweat the details too much. In other words, you are writing fiction,…
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Research, How Much Is Too Much?
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
The Writer’s Toolkit
Every writer has a toolkit, or toolbox, they use to create their work. It is unique to the writer. They create this tool kit from several parts, their vocabulary, their style and voice. They should also include their grasp on…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Sentence Variation
In any writing, you need variation. This doesn’t mean only the words, although changing up your wording is good. You also need to vary your sentences. Consider this paragraph: He looked at the ball. He picked the ball up. He…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
How To Overcome Writer’s Block
Everyone suffers from writer’s block once in awhile. There are methods to cure it, but the first thing you need to do is to figure out the cause. That sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Believe me, it’s anything but easy.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Practicing Writing To A Goal Or Deadline
The realities of writing, at least as a professional, is the idea of the deadline. That’s a date and sometimes time to complete a piece of writing. Professional writers deal with them every day. If your goal is to be…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Where Do You Write?
Some authors have an office they go to to write. Others write wherever and whenever they can. I have a home workstation in my bedroom. I write there a lot. I also write in my living room. I have things…
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Watch Your Tenses
Few things will pop me out of a story faster than a sudden change in tenses. One minute, we are in the past tense, then poof! we are in the present tense. It’s even worse when the change happens in…
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Posted in Writing Techniques
When Repetition Is Good
Last week I talked about varying your words. I gave some good advice, but I also want to talk about the times when you need repetition. It isn’t a bad thing, if sprinkled through the piece in small amounts. When…
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Vary Your Words
Words can be powerful things. When writing, the use of the exact right word is crucial tothe process. That said, you shouldn’t be in love with a particular word either. My mothertold me of a book she read in which…
Tagged with: fiction writing techniques, synonym, synonyms, words, writing, Writing Techniques
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Watch Your Point of View
A little while ago, I was reading fan fiction online. I quite enjoy doing that. My enjoyment was spoiled in one of the stories I was reading. The author switched the point of view character several times in the piece…
Tagged with: narrator, narrator shifts, Point of view, POV, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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