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How To Run A Successful Writing Group - A group discuss their work.
Writing
Hannah Collins

How To Run A Successful Writing Group

The act and art of writing are usually solitary endeavors, even with a head full of a hundred different characters. If you’ve had enough of pacing around your living room trying to ease writer’s block, or terrifying your pets by acting out sword-fights, then a writing group might be just want you need. Maybe you’re

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This Is The Blueprint For A Perfect Cast Of Characters - A cast of characters, including a ninja, a scientist, a princess, and a cowboy.
Writing
Robert Wood

This Is The Blueprint For A Perfect Cast Of Characters

Is there such a thing as a perfect cast of characters? A pure, alchemical recipe of personalities that promises the most engaging narrative a reader could ask for? No, of course not – it’s the events of the story that dictate what it needs from its cast, and what works well for one tale will

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7 Hitchcockian Secrets To Writing Amazing Suspense - An image reminiscent of the shower scene from Psycho.
Writing
Tony Lee Moral

7 Hitchcockian Secrets To Writing Amazing Suspense

Tony Lee Moral is the author of three books on Alfred Hitchcock: Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie; The Making of Hitchcock’s The Birds and Alfred Hitchcock’s Movie Making Masterclass. His new novel, a Hitchcockian suspense mystery, Ghost Maven, is published by Cactus Moon Publications. When plotting my new novel Ghost Maven, I could find no

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7 Ways You’re Treating Your Novel Like A Screenplay (And How To Stop) - An author writes, picturing a film set.
Writing
Hannah Collins

7 Ways You’re Treating Your Novel Like A Screenplay (And How To Stop)

It doesn’t take a genius to see the differences between a novel and a screenplay. They look different on the page, what with the screenplay’s centered text, block-capital names, and bracketed direction. Not only that, but screenplays tend to be far thinner on the page count, too. You can roll one up pretty easily and use

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