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How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story - A character pedals a bike, the front basket laden with packages.
Writing
Robert Wood

How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story

Editing your story is, if we’re honest, more than half the battle of completing it. The first draft is a rush of creativity, but it’s in the editing that you turn it into a well-oiled machine that (crucially) is more concerned with entertaining the reader than acting as an outlet for the author. The technical,

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The Better Way To End Your Scene - A cowboy rides off into the sunset.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

The Better Way To End Your Scene (With Exercises)

The beginning and the end. More writers have had more aneurysms over bookending their stories and sections than just about anything else. We recently covered the Dreaded First Line; today I’d like to tackle the Dreaded Last Line(s)… of each scene. Whether it’s writing too little or too much, authors of every stripe tend to

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6 Ways Mark Twain Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Mark Twain rows a raft down a river.
Writing
Fred Johnson

6 Ways Mark Twain Can Help You Improve Your Writing

The undisputed master of caustic wit, Mark Twain occupies a strange position in today’s literary canon. His novels – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – have not aged particularly gracefully in terms of content, but his essays and articles have made an unexpected comeback, and his craft remains the

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Character Alignment Can Improve Your Book With A Simple Grid - A character throws dice, an angel and a devil over his shoulders.
Writing
Robert Wood

Character Alignment Can Improve Your Book With A Simple Grid

One of the hardest parts of creating a character – let alone enough of them to tell a story – is knowing where to begin. Their function within the story is paramount (that’s what they’re ‘for’ after all), but after that, how do you start putting together complex, consistent, and engaging people? There are many

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