Have you ever read a story and thought the characters should just get on with it? That’s an indication that the author missed the pace of the story. Pacing is the speed at which a story moves along. It can…
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A Word About Pacing
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Choosing Your Words
Words are powerful. They can make or break a piece of writing. The right words can shape your text into something powerful or reduce it to cosmic failure. Word choice involves repetition and complexity of meaning that can either enhance…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Put Your Writing on a Diet
Writing a piece is the first step where you take an idea and expand it into a story. Once you finish the story, you are only half done. You still have to look at the piece and revise it. You…
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
Writer’s Block
Writers block is the bane of all writers. You sit there, staring at a blank word processor, its cursor blinks evilly at you. Or maybe it is accusing you of being stupid. Rest assured, that blinking cursor is not evil.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Rambling in a Journal
A good writing exercise is to just sit down and write. The technical term for it is free writing. I call it rambling in my journal. A lot of my blogs start out as rambles in my journal. I often…
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Posted in Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Fiction, Writing Techniques
The Seven Stages of Writing pt. 2
The fourth stage of writing is plotting. Some writers make detailed plot outlines, others just dive in and write. The former are meticulous and the latter actually plot in their heads and go with that. The former have a firm…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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