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Picking Up A Hobby
Look, we all know that everyone has their own way of writing their stories. I can’t speak for everyone. But I know that one day I decided I was going to become a full time author. Before then, inspiration came and went like a summer breeze, always welcome, always sought after, but nearly impossible to…
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So You’re Ready to Write a Scene
As I’ve been working on the (hopefully) final revision of my work in progress, I’ve tried to figure out which components made it easier to write each scene. So whether you’re a bit new to this writing business and you’re still looking for some tips, or you’re just looking for ideas to make this whole…
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The Last Pages of my College Chapter
I write this blog post on Friday, April 26, 2019. I usually write my blog posts a month beforehand, so if I don’t finish it quite on time, I don’t have to risk falling behind or publishing my posts late. It doesn’t usually matter, but I think this time it does. With any luck, five…
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May Reading Reflections
This post is again about Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood & Bone. Unlike last month’s post, there’s going to be quite a few spoilers. Proceed with caution. Have you ever read a book where two characters become friends or fall in love or whatever, and then things go wrong, and they’re surprised to find the…
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Four Trends I’ve Noticed in Certain Authors’ Novels
Here’s the thing about novel writing. It’s a massive underaking. If you don’t know that, you must be new. It can be easy to get overwhelmed, or to lose faith. The reason, I think, that most people give up in the end is that they don’t know what it is about novel writing that they…
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Shifting the Meaning
The poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, “There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.” This holds true even for novel writing… perhaps especially for novel writing. It’s not just the character who tells the story, but also in what way the character tells the story that can…
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Giving Characters their Voice
Character voice is a subtle art. Certainly, it a bit of a chaotic one. You have to know enough about them to know what they might say in a particular situation, and if you think that’s not terribly hard, then bring to mind a person you know very well. A sister, a parent, a best…
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The Problem With Libraries
For as long as I’ve been writing, people have been telling me what reading strategies they think I should follow to make me a better writer. Well, it’s always fun when someone with little to no writing experience tries to tell you how to become a better writer, but the question they raised is still…
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A Mess of an Editing Process
When I first started revising Dire Fate, I began with a printed manuscript that I read and marked up diligently… until I got about halfway through and realized it wasn’t editing that the manuscript needed but one final revision. Granted, I still pulled from my original draft. In some places, I copied and pasted a…
Katie Bachelder 