Writing goes hand in hand with reading. While some of us write for our own pleasure, most write to be read. To do that well, you need to study your genre. If you want to write mysteries, read mysteries. If…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Writing a Synopsis
One of the things you will need to do with your novel is generate a synopsis of it. A synopsis is a short summary of the plot of a work of fiction. You use a synopsis to tell someone what…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Themes
I learned something new the other day. Not every culture sees a man in the moon. My culture sees a man. Other cultures see animals, a rabbit, in the case of the Chinese. When considering themes in your writing, it’s…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Repetition In Writing
A small amount of repetition can help emphasize points and complement your righting but too much is boring. If you are like me, you likely over used a word or two in your writing. Most word processing software include mechanisms…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Finding the Balance
Life is a balancing act. You have to balance work and play, work and family, diet and exercise and for me, at least, work and writing. Even in writing, there is a balancing act that authors do when writing fiction.…
Finding Your Balance
Life is a balancing act. You have to balance work and play, work and family, diet and exercise and for me, at least, work and writing. Even in writing, there is a balancing act that authors do when writing fiction.…
The Blank Page
A fresh page can be scary. That is, it can be scary when you are a writer confronted with one. That’s ok. All you have to do to conquer it is to write something on it. Write anything, it can…
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