Here’s How To Vary Your Sentence Structure - An author considers their fridge, on which the magnets spell out the same type of sentence over and over.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

Here’s How To Vary Your Sentence Structure

One of the most common issues in longer prose is a lack of variety in sentence structure. It can strike anyone, because it’s not a lack of sophistication, but rather the pull of (otherwise admirable) efficiency of language. Unfortunately, when an author’s tendency towards efficiency collides with a reader’s desire for novelty, there’s a breakdown

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How To Reference Pop Culture In Your Fiction - Characters reminiscent of the Iron Giant and Scott Summers wave at each other (the Iron Giant character wears Superman's S).
Writing
Fred Johnson

How To Reference Pop Culture In Your Fiction

There you are, writing some contemporary or YA fiction, when suddenly you feel the urge to drop in some real-world references to other well-known franchises. Maybe you want to let your readers know your character is a video game nerd by namedropping Ghouls ’n Ghosts, or maybe you want to draw conscious stylistic parallels between

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5 Things Jennifer Egan Can Teach You About Writing - Jennifer Egan stands and ponders a scene from her own work.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Things Jennifer Egan Can Teach You About Writing

When Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2011, it was many readers’ first time hearing her name. Known previously for her 2006 novel The Keep and her earlier, less well-known works Emerald City, The Invisible Circus, and Look at Me, Egan was propelled into well-earned literary stardom

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How To Get Reviews When You're Just Starting Out - A carnival barker waves books in the air.
Marketing
Rebecca Langley

How To Get Reviews When You’re Just Starting Out

You’ve written a seriously awesome book – it’s well researched, insightful, and compelling. Not only that, but you’ve had it edited to death and then back to life again. It’s a masterpiece, it’s ready, it’s available for purchase, and people are buying it! In fact, they’re loving it… and yet they’re not leaving reviews. Readers

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