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13 Tips to Improve Your Characterization

This Business of Writing wrote 9 hours ago: I spent a couple of days at a writers’ conference not too long ago and wanted to pass along a few th … more →

Tags: character, Characterization, Characters, how to improve

"To be? Or not to be?"1 comment

This Business of Writing wrote 1 week ago: The Great Bard did have a way with words, didn’t he? I’ve been studying writing for some time now an … more →

Tags: To be !@#$%^&, Manuscript, Novel, Reading, Reading / Read:, secret, Verb, write, writer

Character Types in Fiction - Part 2

This Business of Writing wrote 1 week ago: In my most recent post I introduced two types of characters, The Hero, (protagonist), and the Mentor … more →

Tags: Book Marketing, character, Characters, Fiction, how to write a book, How To Write A Novel, Novel, Read, reader

Character Types in Fiction

This Business of Writing wrote 1 week ago: As we travel together down the road of how to write a novel, I’ve talked about the steps your protag … more →

Tags: character, Characters, Fiction, Hero, how to write a book, How To Write A Novel, Manuscript, Manuscripts, Mentor

How to Use Conflict in Fiction

This Business of Writing wrote 1 week ago: Conflict is critical to any good story. It’s what makes your story worth reading and, in fact, is th … more →

Tags: character, Characters, .:*Conflict*:., Dialogue, Novel, Read, reader, readers, Reading

Tips on Eliminating Unnecessarily Overused Adverbs

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: Aspiring authors always hear about the need to reduce adverbs, but just how might that be done? Firs … more →

Tags: Editing your manuscript, Adverb, adverbs, Author, Authors, Novel, Read, reader, readers

Interview with Elizabeth Chadwick, 2/2

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: This is the second and final installment of my interview with the ever-gracious Elizabeth Chadwick. … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, Elizabeth Chadwick, Novel, publish, Publishing, Read, reader, readers

Interview w/ Elizabeth Chadwick, Best-selling Historical Fiction Writer

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: The talented author, Elizabeth Chadwick, granted me an interview, the focus of which was to assist a … more →

Tags: General Information, Author, Authors, Craft of Writing, Edit, Editing, Elizabeth Chadwick, Learning the Craft of Writing, Novel

Storytelling in 12 Easy Steps

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve read untold articles on what writers need to accomplish to move from the ranks of the unpublish … more →

Tags: Author, Book Marketing, Hero's Journey, how to write a book, Novel, reader, readers, Reading, Storyline

Paragraph Basics

Kim Justesen wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve noticed a lot of interest in the Review of Sentence Basics recently, so I thought this to … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Creativity, English, writing, Revising, Revision, Teaching

Tips for Establishing Setting in Your Novel 2 comments

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: Setting is that aspect of your novel that gives the readers a sense of place and time. Read Elizabet … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, character, Characters, Novel, Read, reader, Reading, secret

Historical Dialogue in Fiction

This Business of Writing wrote 2 weeks ago: A recent post on this blog concerned the technique of bringing forth language from an earlier time a … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, Chadwick, character, Characters, Dialogue, Edit, Editing, editing dialogue

Tips to Finding Your Writer’s Voice

schulzecpatrick wrote 3 weeks ago: The word, “voice” is batted around in literary circles and agents always speak of looking for the “u … more →

Tags: Writers, write, writing, the secret to dialogue, Novel, book, Novels, Books, Author

Tips to Finding Your Writer’s Voice2 comments

This Business of Writing wrote 3 weeks ago: The word, “voice” is batted around in literary circles and agents always speak of looking for the “u … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, character, Characters, Novel, Read, readers, Reading, secrets

The Hidden Secret to Dialogue

schulzecpatrick wrote 3 weeks ago: Dialogue may be one of the toughest lessons a successful writer must learn and is often the differen … more →

Tags: Dialogue, Writers, write, writing, secret, the secret to dialogue, Novel, book, Novels

How to Punctuate Dialogue

This Business of Writing wrote 3 weeks ago: For many authors punctuation is difficult even without using ellipses, colons and semicolons. Why, e … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, character, Characters, Dialogue, editing dialogue, Read, readers, Reading

Tips for Writing Effective Dialogue2 comments

This Business of Writing wrote 3 weeks ago: Dialogue in your novel has much more impact than simply increasing word count. It is a necessary asp … more →

Tags: Author, Authors, character, Characters, Dialogue, Edit, Editing, editing dialogue, How to Write Dialogue

The Secret to Dialogue vs. Dialect

This Business of Writing wrote 3 weeks ago: Aspiring authors struggle with many issues and one of the most onerous is dialect. How does a writer … more →

Tags: Dialect, Dialogue, Edit, Editing, editing dialect, editing dialogue, how to write dialect, How to Write Dialogue, Read

A Cure for Writer's Block1 comment

Kim Justesen wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m not blocked when I blog. It’s a strange phenomenon.  I tend not to think of blogging … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Creativity, Miscellaneous, personally, writing, Blogging, Inspiration, Movies, National Film Fest


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