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It’s been said that all art is lying, but that doesn’t mean that all lying is art. In fact, there are a lot of lies that can get in the way of art, demoralizing artists and frittering away their time on methods that will never pay off. Even among these dangerous mistruths, there are three lies …
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Nothing gets a reader to love a book quite so much as getting them to engage with it. Passive readers experience a story and move on, but engaged readers mull over the plot, theorize about character motivations, and fantasize about paths not taken (sometimes enough to write them), all while the …
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Have you ever been pulled over by the grammar police for head-hopping? It’s one of the most common editor pet peeves, but a device many authors swear by, claiming that their readers certainly aren’t complaining. Maybe not, but I’d still advise against it, and in this article, I’ll be telling you …
[Read more...] about Why Head-Hopping Hurts Your Writing And How To Avoid It
I have a question for you. It’s one you may not have asked yourself, but it’s important, and it may reveal the exact reason why you haven’t achieved success yet. It could tell you why you can’t quite finish that first draft, why you haven’t got around to editing or redrafting, or why there isn’t …
[Read more...] about Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success? Here’s How To Stop
Pathos is down on its luck these days; appeals to emotion are bound up in reasonable fears of ‘post-truth’ and ‘populist’ writing, but I’m here to tell you that intelligent use of pathos can make your fiction better. Now, pathos certainly has its dark side. Many of the TV, radio, and internet …
[Read more...] about Pathos Is Not A Dirty Word, And It Belongs In A Writer’s Vocabulary
I remember my very first writing critique. I was meeting with a group of women I worked with; two of them were acquaintances, the other two were complete strangers. And I was so nervous. I walked into that writer’s group feeling shaky and sweaty and afraid of being unmasked as a failure. Can you …
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