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The notion of forfeiting the sensations stemming from reading a book in favor of listening to a book seems, to those of us who are more traditional bibliophiles, somewhat counterproductive to the concept of “reading”. While audiobooks may be considered as “cheating”, for writers, they can be highly valuable in promoting readership. The way we absorb and communicate information is changing with …
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Often, the most compelling and permanent method to capture the powerful emotions and impact of a specific life event is through memoir. Writing memoir is a highly personal and “self” orientated experience. While you do not need to be an established, published or experienced writer to begin writing your memoir, if you are writing to publish, it's easy to lose sight of the purpose of writing, and …
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You have the ideas. Plenty of them. The difficulty, however, is that you aren’t sure how and when to put pen to paper. Without doubt, whether you’re a beginner or advanced writer, one of the major frustrations you have is contemplating the resounding question: Where do I begin? The answer to this is easier than it sounds. Multi award winning author, Randy Ingermanson, has pioneered the …
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The phrase “show, don’t tell” is a popular one, insisting that showing is always the superior form of writing, but some persuasive voices warn against this line of thinking: Needless to say, many great novelists combine ‘dramatic’ showing with long sections of the flat-out authorial narration… the warning against telling leads to a confusion that causes novice writers to think that everything …
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The single best piece of advice about writing prose is a piece of advice about writing poetry: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there’s nothing sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is redundant. - William Carlos Williams Though a piece of prose is usually a bigger machine than a poem, the same rules apply. The words you use and the …
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Do you want to dig around in the darker recesses of the human imagination? Scare the bejesus out of your reader? Telling grisly fireside tales of what lies beyond is, after all, among the very oldest of human traditions. To date, millions of horror stories have been told, so how are you going to make yours stand out? Well, aside from having the basic tools that every writer needs – characters, …
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