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7 Ways Donald E. Westlake (and Richard Stark) Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Donald Westlake waves at the reader, imagining a stylish criminal.
Writing
Robert Wood

7 Ways Donald E. Westlake (And Richard Stark) Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Westlake was a three-time winner of the Edgar Award and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, as well as an Academy Award nominee for his script writing. He is most famous for his comic mysteries starring melancholic criminal John Dortmunder and (as Richard Stark) his crime thrillers starring steely, workmanlike criminal Parker.

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Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore - An author reads a book, a question mark filling her thought bubble.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore

For a while now, we’ve been putting overly rigid writing advice under the microscope with 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore and 3 (More) Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore. Today, we’re back in the lab, examining more absolutes to see if they belong in your writing. Myth #7: Write what you

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What Is ‘Fridging’, And How Can You Avoid It? - A man opens the fridge to discover a woman, who says 'spoiler alert'.
Writing
Robert Wood

What Is ‘Fridging’, And How Can You Avoid It?

What set your character on their path through the story? Yes, they should have a goal, but why is that goal so important to them? What kind of event is enough to justify telling a whole story about the reaction? A talented author can turn pretty much any event into a justifiable reason to follow

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Make Sports Work In Your Fiction - A basketball player runs after the ball.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Write Better Sports Fiction With These Tips

It’s true that sports have had a difficult time breaking out of nonfiction (after all, there’s certainly no shortage of sports memoirs, biographies, and histories); despite the efforts of writers including Ernest Hemingway, Alan Sillitoe, Nick Hornby, David Foster Wallace, and Haruki Murakami, sports rarely seem to muscle into the literary sphere, and that’s a

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