Characters

How To Find The Story In Your Non-fiction Project - An author drops books into a cauldron, the best version emerging in a cloud.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Find The Story In Your Nonfiction Project

Is there such a thing as actual nonfiction? In short, yes, but it almost always comes in the form of graphs, bone-dry reports, and scientific studies where the authors deliberately fight against a sense of narrative in favor of pure fact. Everything else – diaries, memoirs, historical writing – has a dash of narrative in

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The Color-Coding Technique That Will Save Your Writing - A character with rainbow hair reads a book, complaining that it's bland via an icon of a bottle of milk.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

The Color-Coding Technique That Will Save Your Writing

A while back, we talked about reasons people will put a book down and how to make sure it isn’t your book they’re ditching by page 13. One major thing that turns readers off is a book that’s too homogeneous – it’s all the same, page after page. Books that are homogeneous are easy to drop,

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Judy Blume MasterClass Review: Is It Worth Your Money? - Judy Blume stands in front of a blackboard.
Marketing
Robert Wood

Judy Blume MasterClass Review: Is It Worth Your Money?

If you enjoy this review and are considering purchasing or trialling MasterClass then you can support us by doing so through one of the links on this page. If you click on one of these links we will receive a small payment (commission) from MasterClass, this does not affect the price you pay and has

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Is A Character Sketch The Best Way To Introduce Your Characters? - An author regards a sketched character with indecision.
Writing
Robert Wood

Is A Character Sketch The Best Way To Introduce Your Characters?

How do you introduce a character? With an action, with dialogue, via someone else, before they’re even in the scene? The ideal approach depends on the story, but a character sketch – a short passage that focuses on an immediate, extensive description of who the character is and what they look like – is perhaps

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