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How to Make Money Writing Your Book
A little article on how you can make money writing books and selling them on your website.
How to Write a Byronic Hero
How and When to write a Byronic Hero: the traits and uses of this popular character type.
Choosing Names for Fictional Characters
Q&A Tips on how writers can choose names for fictional characters
Creating Fictional Characters
Tips on creating fictional characters to fulfill dramatic roles in your story.
Writing a Mary Sue
The problems and challenges with writing a Mary Sue character. When is it okay and when is it not?
How to Write a Prologue
Do you need to write a prologue for your novel? If so, here's how to do it right.
How to do a phone conversation?
Question: In my book there are a couple time when a character is talking on a phone or through an ear piece to someone. How would I do the conversation?
What to do if your novel is too short?
What do do if your novel is too short? Developing vs padding a story.
Choosing a Book Title
questions and answers on choosing a book title that fits your novel or nonfiction manuscript.
The 12 Jungian Character Archetypes
The 12 jungian character archetypes you can use in fiction writing
Write Compelling Story Ideas: Online Course
Write Compelling Story Ideas: an online creative writing course on finding great ideas for stories quickly and easily.
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How Much Development of Characters Who Die?
Question: I've been experimenting with ways to heighten the tension in my plot while tying it in with the world I created. In my story, I want to hammer
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Psychosis, Bonding and Deception
Question: Okay, so I am writing a book about a Psychiatrist and his patient who suffers from antisocial personality disorder and psychosis, but I don't
Survey: What do you want in an Online Writing Course?
Fellow Writers: Please take a few minutes to let me know your thoughts about what sort of online writing courses we should offer in the future.
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Novel Writing Advice, Self-Publishing Advice, Publishing novels as a teenager
Hi! Thanks for reading! Here are my questions! 1. How do I choose a title for my novels / books? 2. How do I check my grammar if I self-publish my novels?
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Write a Horror Story: 6 Dark Secrets
Dark secrets you must unearth to effectively write a horror story.
How do I make plot device companion character feel alive?
Question: okay ... so ... I am changing the plot of my novel to integrate a new plot. As a part of this, I'm realizing that I need a sort of friend/companion
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Is there such a thing as a delusional character arc?
Question: I am writing a fantasy novel. Strangely I am having great success with all my characters EXCEPT my protagonist. In attempt to focus in on and
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How to reveal powers that the main character knows they have?
Question: My character has superpowers, and she was in a group of heroes so they know, but nobody else knows. How do I reveal these powers to the new group
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Wordiness (Pt.2 of Line Editing for Fiction Writers)
Fix wordiness while line editing your stories.
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Line Editing for Fiction Writers
Line editing is the second phase of self-editing for fiction writers.
Writing a fictional account of an actual event
I have just completed a novel that begins (several chapters) with one of the most famous UFO sightings. The incident took place in 1950 and the two real
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Story Structure: "The Lesser Evil"
Structuring the short story, using "The Lesser Evil" from The Witcher series as an example.
Name of a Real Hotel
Hello, I am writing my first novel the first part of which takes place in a real hotel in downtown LA. The main character has a job and office space
Ending your plot lines in tandem or apart?
Question: I have two plot lines. I know which one is major and which one is secondary. Currently they both end more or less in tandem at the end of the
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character development
Question: How do I know when my character has been fully developed? How will I know when to stop adding detail before they become a mess of a character?
Shallow plot
Question: My plot seems very shallow. It’s about a thirteen year old artist who gets sent away to an island for the summer by her parents. The reason is
I have no idea how to develop this further
hello everyone, I am writing a novel. The protagonist is Vigdis (the whole story is set in viking Norway) and she essentially flees with her secret lover,
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First chapters
Hi, I'm trying to write a story of an alternate universe of a world revolved around nature (Four regions known as the Springlands, Summerlands, Autumnlands,
Having Multiple characters.
Question: I am writing a Sci-fi story with a military group injected with a specific serum that gives them certain abilities in fighting aliens. I have
Story Structure
Question: I want to write a novel about the experiences of four friends living in the 1950s. Can I write a few chapters at the beginning that show their
Too much happining in each chapter
Question: OK, so I have been writing for a while and I realized that each chapter does the same thing at the end and it took me a while to realize what
Characters
Question: I am writing a story from the viewpoints of three different characters, there are going to be a lot of names throughout the story and I'm unsure
Is my plot enough?
Question: I'm writing a young adult novel about a boy who comes to Italy to study art for the summer and starts falling in love with the son of the host
Writing help/feedback
Question: I decided to start writing short stories to improve my writing before getting back to my book and I think they are turning out really good. I
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