Exercises

Improve Your Exposition Immediately With This One Simple Tip - A character points to a flower, unnecessarily telling his friend what it is.
Writing
Robert Wood

Improve Your Exposition Immediately With This One Simple Tip

Exposition is one of those horrible parts of writing that you have to get exactly right. Too much or too little and the reader will notice straightaway, rolling their eyes at your inability to explain things directly. It’s an unfair reaction, especially when there are so many things to explain. ‘Exposition’ is the part of

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Why You Need To Write With Authenticity And How To Do It - A lion, who is also a pirate, raises his cutlass high.
Writing
Paige Duke

Why You Need To Write With Authenticity And How To Do It

In writing circles, we commonly tell each other to turn off our internal editor in the early stages of writing. It’s good writing advice, but do we go far enough? In her book If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland says: Though everybody is talented and original, often it does not break through for a

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How To Identify And Reduce The Stress Of Writing - An author is pulled in many directions, with ropes tied to a computer, a book, a dollar sign and more.
Writing
Hannah Collins

How To Identify And Reduce The Stress Of Writing

Here’s something most people will tell you about being creative – it can be fun, rewarding and exciting. Here’s something they probably won’t tell you about being creative – it can also be frustrating, stressful and tiring. I’m going to assume that – since you’re reading this blog – you’re a creative person and can

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Why You Need To Know About Sense Writing - An author considers sensory organs, imagining ears, eyes, hands, etc.
Writing
Robert Wood

Why You Need To Know About Sense Writing

Seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. They’re the senses everyone knows – the way we interact with and understand the world around us – and yet so often, authors forget them when writing a story. That’s a shame, because sense writing is one of the surest ways to enliven a scene and fix your reader

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