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When it comes to improving your craft, a mastery of imagery is key. Being able to present the world outside the literal truth opens up a vista of possibilities that are otherwise closed off. Suddenly, characters, locations, and events can be anything, if only for a moment, vastly enhancing your ability to write unique, emotive prose. To that end, today I’ll be talking about similes …
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Few genres have found their markets over the past couple of decades as successfully as fantasy. Once marketed to a niche, stereotypical idea of teen boys, the genre has exploded across the publishing, TV, and movie industries and, in the world of fiction at least, one of the brightest rising stars has been American author Patrick Rothfuss. Known principally for his epic fantasy series The …
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No-one is an island, but a lot of writers like their solitude. The process of writing itself is often solitary, and it can be hard to immerse yourself in the world of your book when a real live character from this world is competing for your attention. Yet our fellow writers can help us hone our craft and expose us to opportunities to write, publish, compete, collaborate, learn, grow, market, …
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If you’ve searched for writing advice recently, you’ve probably heard of MasterClass (not least because your search results are a prime resource for online marketing.) MasterClass boasts a lot of unique content, with some of the world’s most accomplished authors offering comprehensive lectures on their areas of expertise. In today’s article, I’ll be looking at the MasterClass lectures of horror …
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The term ‘synecdoche’ is unwieldy, even unfriendly, but it describes a useful literary device that you’re probably already using at various levels of your writing, from the concepts behind your story to the way you phrase certain sentences. Good synecdoche has a lot of uses, but when it turns bad, it has a uniquely goofy way of screwing up your writing. That’s why, in today’s article, we’ll be …
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Writing is about communication, and effective communication depends on understanding your audience. A book written in untranslated Japanese is unlikely to land with a mass Western audience, a book full of high-level terms and complex sentences isn’t going to set the children’s literature market on fire, and even certain ideas and ways of thinking are going to drive away a general readership unless …
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