World building

Is The Middle Of Your Story Letting You Down? - A climber discovers a long, flat plane between mountains.
Writing
Robert Wood

Is The Middle Of Your Story Letting You Down?

When it comes to writing a story, the beginning and the end tend to get all the attention. If you’re relating a story, you’re probably going to explain where things begin, the central goal, and whether or not it’s reached. If an author manages to produce a particularly gripping middle – the Battle of Helm’s

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The Color-Coding Technique That Will Save Your Writing - A character with rainbow hair reads a book, complaining that it's bland via an icon of a bottle of milk.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

The Color-Coding Technique That Will Save Your Writing

A while back, we talked about reasons people will put a book down and how to make sure it isn’t your book they’re ditching by page 13. One major thing that turns readers off is a book that’s too homogeneous – it’s all the same, page after page. Books that are homogeneous are easy to drop,

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Five Things George R. R. Martin Can Teach You About Writing - George R. R. Martin waves, imagining a dragon flying away.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Things George R. R. Martin Can Teach You About Writing

Twenty years ago, you might not have heard of George R. R. Martin, who, at that time, would have been merely the author of the modestly successful fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. In the years following, he would produce the sequels A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows,

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How To Manage The Politics Of Your Writing - A character stands at a podium, ranting about the world.
Writing
Robert Wood

How To Manage The Politics Of Your Writing

All art is political, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The way in which we believe the world to work – the way we think it should work – has a natural part to play in both our creation of fictional worlds and how we depict our own. The connection between art and politics is

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