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What Authors Need To Know About Ships And Spaceships - A rocket zooms through space.
Writing
Hannah Collins

What Authors Need To Know About Ships And Spaceships

Ships and spaceships are staples of historical fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi. It’s hard to think of Star Trek without picturing the crew on the famous bridge of the USS Enterprise, or Peter Pan and Captain Hook clashing swords without the Jolly Roger. More than just a means of transportation, the best-written ships are characters in

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7 Ways William Faulkner Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Faulkner holds a pipe and dispenses advice.
Writing
Fred Johnson

7 Ways William Faulkner Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Few American writers command the same level of respect and awe as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner William Faulkner. Born in 1897 and best-known for his novels As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom!; Light in August; and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner is a giant of American literature and a defining figure in the

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What You Need To Know Before Writing A Shared Universe - A dwarf and a hobbit are locked in discussion.
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Robert Wood

What You Need To Know Before Writing A Shared Universe

Only a decade ago, the shared universe was a rare flower – the province of only a few artists and, even then, rarely explored to its fullest potential. Now, it’s hard to name a movie studio that isn’t launching some kind of shared universe, from Marvel’s ‘cinematic universe’, in which characters like Iron Man, Captain

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Want A Cult Following? Hide Secrets In Your Writing - An author walks along, sensing terrifying characters hidden behind bushes,
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Robert Wood

Want A Cult Following? Hide Secrets In Your Writing

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 years go by and

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