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Your Dreams Can Improve Your Writing - An author dreams of a book.
Writing
Paige Duke

Your Dreams Can Improve Your Writing

I love the idea of dream logic – how dreams can go, and how even though they’re very abstract, you can understand them. – David Lynch from Thomas Caldwell’s ‘Living Inside a Dream: The Art and Films of David Lynch’ Despite all the insight modern science has given us, it still hasn’t solved the mystery

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Including Original Poetry And Song In Your Fiction (What You Need To Know) - A beatnik author holds out their book, music notes floating free.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Including Original Poetry And Song In Your Fiction (What You Need To Know)

Many writers, particularly if they’re writing fantasy, YA, or sci-fi, like to spice up their stories with the occasional song and poem. Maybe they’re trying to aid characterization with some soulful poetry, share exposition through a traditional ballad, or just make their world feel a little more real. Done well, such embedded works can bring

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Want To Invent A Fictional Language? Here’s How To Do It – Part 2 - A character speaks a fantasy language.
Writing
Robert Wood

Want To Invent A Fictional Language? Here’s How To Do It – Part 2

This is a two-part article. For part 1, click here. In part 1 of this guide to inventing a fictional language, I described the tips and tricks you can use to construct your vocabulary and grammar. But as I said then, we’re not done yet – real languages aren’t perfect systems, and their intricacies and

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