Perhaps you aren't right now feeling hopeful. Perhaps not looking forward to anything in particular. But wherever you are in your life, the amazing thing is you can still be knocked on your heels …
Kristen Lamb on writing her first novel
The long game is fiction As my readers know, I am also writing fiction. I have followed Kristin Lambs' blog for several years. Looking back at 2002 when she began the marathon of mastering novel …
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Quiz for fiction writers
Fiction Writers Quiz Please answer True or False All editors do copy editing. Most writers live in their heads. Only the best writers get publishing deals. Most novelists make tons of …
5 poets to raise your courage
Great poetry raises my courage Kahlil Gibran, born in Lebanon, was a poet, artist, philosophical essayist and a novelist,who emigrated to New York in 1885. His work, written both in Arabic and …
Synopsis: Summing up your story makes a difference by Andrea Lundgren
Readers like to know what they’re getting into before they start a book. They want to know if it’s a series, what genre, and what they can expect, overall, before they start reading (unless they trust …
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Write Monday: storytelling bones
Act I Open a story with a hook. What type of hook? A punch in a character's face? Maybe. Maybe not. A narrator says, “I’m going to tell you a story and this is why you must listen, I haven’t long …