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If you’ve searched for advice on how to structure a story, it’s a good bet that you’ve heard the name John Yorke. A writer, script editor, and television producer, Yorke’s Into the Woods is a treatise on how to tell great stories, applying Yorke’s own experience and research to the tenets of storytelling laid out in Joseph Campbell’s seminal The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Whether you’re writing …
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For independent and/or self-publishing authors, publicity can be the biggest challenge of them all. Most authors don’t have any experience in this area, don’t know where to begin, and don’t have anyone pushing them to just dive in and get started. Consequently, no-one really hears about their book, and it takes them much, much longer than necessary to make any kind of impact (think years, not …
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What do you want as a writer? To produce great work and find your fair share of readers – that’s a given – but what about on a deeper level? Are you the type of writer who wants to change the world, or do you just love words and take joy in making them dance? It may seem like a question without any practical benefits, but harnessing your artistic drive is a process that begins with …
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When it comes to writing, it’s possible to improve your craft on every level, from the huge plot decisions that define your story to the exact words you use in any given sentence. One area in which you may never have considered enhancing your writing is the use of euphony and cacophony, but fear not; that’s exactly what we’re going to discuss in today’s article. What are euphony and …
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Sometimes, it’s only when you actually start writing that the problems begin. The ideas are all in place, you know your plot points and characters like the back of your hand, but then your pencil hovers over the page (or your fingers over the keyboard) and you realize that the scene just won’t come. Maybe you power through, but even after the immense effort of getting your ideas down on the …
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In part 1 of this article (available here), I talked about what similes and metaphors are, how they differ, and how to choose between them in your writing. In this, part 2, we’ll be discussing how to really master these examples of figurative language; how to write better similes and metaphors, how to adopt figurative language into your writing style, and how to avoid the pitfalls that come with …
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