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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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How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 2 - A young boy holds a stick, his shadow that of a possibly evil, sword-wielding warrior.
Writing
Robert Wood

How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 2

This is the second in a two-part article on foreshadowing. For the first installment, click here. In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the versatility of foreshadowing and how you can use it to improve your story. In this, the concluding part of the article, we’re going to turn our attention to the

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How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 1 - A young boy holds a stick, his shadow that of a possibly evil, sword-wielding warrior.
Writing
Robert Wood

How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 1

At its best, foreshadowing can drastically deepen a story, lending new weight to structure and character. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be looking at how authors can get to grips with foreshadowing and employ it practically in their own writing. In this, Part 1, I’ll be looking at the various things foreshadowing can do

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How To Make A Story Feel EPIC! - In a scene reminiscent of Moana, a young woman spreads her arms, standing on the prow of a boat.
Writing
Fred Johnson

How To Make A Story Feel EPIC!

The term ‘epic’ is thrown around a lot these days but, before it was used to describe YouTube videos, skateboarding tricks, and sandwiches, the term originally applied to a particular form of oral poetry. Since then, ‘epic’ has come to be applied to other forms of art: theatre, film, novels, music, television… even video games.

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