Like it or not, swearing, cursing, saying bad words, uttering profanities, being foul-mouthed, growling obscenities, cussing, effing and blinding, venturing imprecation, and even turning the air blue are facts of life. For many people, bad language is an everyday occurrence, while for others it’s a major taboo, but it’s certainly a feature of a realistic,
If you’ve ever read an authors’ ‘How To’ book, attended a creative writing class or pretty much sought writing advice of any kind ever, you’re bound to have run into this phrase: ‘always start with the action’. It’s probably as ubiquitous as ‘show don’t tell’ and ‘do not, under any circumstances, use Comic Sans. EVER’.
There are as many types of antagonist as there are protagonist – a villain for every hero (maybe more than one). We’ve talked before about how to write sympathetic antagonists, how to write villains that your reader trusts, and even how to write a story with no antagonist at all, but what about when you
It’s time-honored advice that authors can learn as much – if not more – from badly told stories than from works of genius. Good writing, after all, is idiosyncratic; there’s only so much you can learn from Twain or Hemingway before you’re simply learning their style, whereas poor writers highlight the pitfalls you might tumble into
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