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NaNoWriMo Week 1: How To Get Your First Draft Started - A baby holds a piece of paper, on which they've started their first chapter.
Writing
Robert Wood

NaNoWriMo Week 1: How To Get Your First Draft Started

Hello authors, and welcome to the first article of our month-long National Novel Writing Month coverage. For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo takes place over November and challenges authors to pen 50,000 words in thirty days. It’s caught on around the world, with a variety of resources now available for those taking part. There’s no

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Surprising Ways To Use Happiness In Storytelling (And How To Get Them Right) - An author writes, imagining herself running through a field of flowers.
Writing
Paige Duke

Surprising Ways To Use Happiness In Storytelling (And How To Get Them Right)

Happiness. It’s not – at face value – a likely theme for the novelist. – Robert McCrum, ‘Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction?’ from The Guardian Conflict is the fuel of fiction, the engine that keeps the story surging forward. But ‘all drama, all the time’ makes for an unrealistic reading experience and a pace

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Is The Halo Effect Exactly What Your Characters Need? - A woman stares at an angel, hearts in her eyes.
Writing
Robert Wood

Is The Halo Effect Exactly What Your Characters Need?

In writing, and most artistic endeavors, artists have the benefit of accessing and utilizing a wide range of tools. These tools can be complex and take a lot of work – like successfully folding your writing – while others – like quadrant theory – are more about understanding and refining what we already half-understand as

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Reader Proxies: What They Are And When They’re Useful - A reader manipulates a puppet that looks exactly like them.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Reader Proxies: What They Are And When They’re Useful

Not all works of fiction rely on a cast made up exclusively of deep, complex, and inscrutable characters. Some need a character that the audience can inhabit or possess; a platform for the reader to survey the world from and a mouthpiece for their own questions and thoughts. Such ‘reader proxy’ (or, in the case

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