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Some writing advice is practical (cut your adverbs), some is theoretical (the structure of a story influences its message), and some is factual (the short-fiction market isn’t what it used to be). Personally, I’ve always found that the best writing advice deals with perception – the ability to understand how someone else will process your art. A hard fact of human nature can be revealed to you, …
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Donald E. Westlake is perhaps the definitive writer’s writer, having published more than one hundred books under various names, including Curt Clark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, Edwin West, Judson Jack Carmichael and – most famously – Richard Stark. Why so many names? Partly because Westlake showed admirable brand management by choosing different names when writing in different genres, and partly …
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Sometimes, a project will call for an interview or two. Maybe you’re a true crime author interviewing witnesses, maybe you’re writing a biography (even a memoir) and need as many viewpoints as possible, or maybe you’re a fiction author whose research involves digging deep into phrasing and vocabulary. Maybe you’re a nonfiction author of pretty much any stripe who wants to include a unique quote in …
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Sometimes, even when something has existed for hundreds of years, it takes another culture to accurately identify it and give it a name. Such is the case for the ‘tsundere’ character – a personality type that we all recognize but which the English language hasn’t quite succeeded in capturing. Now, learning a new literary term is always fun, but identifying a character type that can be found …
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Welcome to part 2 of our article on ‘origifying’ fan fiction into something that stands (and can be sold) on its own two feet. In part 1 (available here), we discussed the basic logic of how to turn fan fiction into original work, and we began addressing superficial differences and cutting any ties that don’t serve our new story. In this, part 2, we’ll be getting a lot more practical, and since …
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