Category: Writing Tips

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Writing Tips

Beating Your Scene into Action by Kay Keppler

Every scene you write should have a purpose. It should move the plot or develop a character. To keep your scenes active and give them some energy, think about the values that are at stake in each one.

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Creativity Tools and Tips / inspiration / Play and Games / Writing Tips

Games and Contests: Creative Building Blocks for Writers by Wyatt G. Bessing

Sitting down with my first student for the day, I open a new game, Zing!: The Bewitching Storymaking Game. We take turns placing words like magnetic poetry magnets, slowing creating a story of a boy playing violin as his mother watches scornfully. We gradually reveal her belligerence and anger.

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Twitter for Authors / Writing Tips

It’s now out! Get your own Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing for Shy Writers

Social media book marketing is key to building your author platform and to selling more books. For many authors, the idea of sharing themselves with the world through Twitter and other social media platforms can be petrifying. But in Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing for Shy Writers, you will discover simple ways to connect with your audience and potential readers. In this easy-to-read guide, written by a shy writer, novelist and teacher, Beth Barany, you’ll find the confidence and encouragement to step into social media and the how-to steps on what to say, how to find your followers, and how to present yourself in 140 characters or less.

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Writing Tips

No Excuses, Get Writing Now

I don’t know about you, but I’m always coming up with ways to get myself to the page. I read encouraging blogs like Steven Pressfield’s; I carry a journal with me everywhere (Yeah, Moleskin!);...

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The Importance of a Writer’s Group—Online or Off by Karina Fabian

It’s a myth that writers are solitary creatures. Writers have always benefited from meeting in groups to share their works and discuss the issues of writing and living. In a really good group, you get far more than simple critique or support. You’ll find leads, get ideas, and maybe even find yourself moving in a unexpected direction.

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Write Your Novel: Settings — Make Them Do More

I can see it now—you and your Aunt Myrtle at Thanksgiving. “What’s your book about, dear?” she’ll say over turkey and gravy. And you oblige her by saying, “Well, my heroine—that’s Artemisia Bullwinkle—finds a body in the pantry and figures out that the heir and her true love—that’s Froggie Muckbottom—did it. She sends him to the Big House, where he catches chilblains and she knits him woolen booties. And it all happens in Regency England.”

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Writing Tips

How to Get What You Want by Alara Castell

Enjoy this guest post from fun, bubbly and oh-so-practical, Alara Castell! Useful for all us Author Entrepreneurs! *** I feel this post can relate to anything from finding a partner, to attracting more clients, to...

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