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Top 5 Tips for Researching Your Fiction Novel
Research is extremely time-consuming, but well worth the effort. After all, you never want to get your facts wrong, even with fiction. Here are my top 5 tips for researching your novel……
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5 Tips for a Killer Ending
Most readers want a resolution, an ending to satisfy their need to see that everything worked out. That’s one way to go. Or you can go a different route. Who can forget movies…
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Five Elements of Thriller Writing… Creating Suspense and Tension in Thrillers
I decided to research tips about creating intense suspense, twists, and turns in thriller writing. If who haven’t checked out my earlier posts on sequel writing, you can review them here: Your Inner…
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Me and My Big Mouth! Write what you mean on social media, texting and emails
Have you ever written something and when you went back to read it you thought, “What the hell happened?” One day last week I thought I was writing magic. The words flowed beautifully.…
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Creating Characters in Fiction
In an earlier post Character Building– Why is JUSTIFIED justified in fiction writing I wrote about character traits. Today I’d like to delve a little deeper. Characters are the most important element of…
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Character Building: Why is JUSTIFIED justified in fiction writing
Why is Justified, the TV show, justified in fiction writing? Your characters are what your story is all about, right? Without a character there can be no story. So, why do some writers…
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Murder Blog Make-over & A fiction writing challenge for YOU!
MURDER BLOG has a whole new look! As most of you know, I’m taking the Blogging 201 challenge. The last few days it has been all about redesigning your blog to make it…
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Blogging 201, Day One: Branding & Growth
Why do I blog? I initially started my blog for exposure. While researching literary agents I discovered how important a strong social media presence was, not just for non-fiction writers but for fiction writers…
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Verb tenses in fiction writing, POV, Point of view of narration in fiction
Verb tenses in fiction writing are confusing, at least they were for me. Hence, why I’m writing this post. I’m hoping I can help, and not confuse you more 🙂 Let’s sidestep for…
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Freytag's Pyramid in Fiction Writing, Rejection Letters, What not to do on your blog/website
Lately I’ve come across several blogs and websites used solely for a place to complain. We, as writers, deal with rejection all the time. Rejection is hard. When that agent/editor/publisher tells you they are going…
