Analyze Your Audience! – Part 2 I took a lot of writing classes in college, and I think that in…
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Writers of the Future
Recently I finished editing L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future, Volume 35, and in another week I’ll begin…
Continue reading →The Shiver Test – NaNoWriMo Daily Writing Tips
When you’re brainstorming a new story, how do you know that it will be good? A young writer once presented…
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Installing a New Habit – NaNoWriMo Daily Writing Tips
Humans are creatures of habit. We learn how to do a thing—such as drive a car—and then put ourselves on…
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Payoff
I’ve said before that every story should have an emotional payoff. Yet far too often, I read stories where the…
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You and Your Ugly Baby
I was working on a scene yesterday that somehow felt flabby. The prose itself was fine, but I realized that…
Continue reading →Get Writers of the Future for $.99
Dear folks, Just wanted to post a little note to say that Amazon has this year’s Writers of the Future…
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