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The Tips You Need To Write Amazing Color - A painter waves a brush, surrounded by multicolor splodges.
Writing
Fred Johnson

The Tips You Need To Write Amazing Color

Color, like time, will be present in your fiction whether you want it to be or not. It’s one of the grand defaults of human life; unless you’re writing fiction from the point of view of a colorblind individual or your plot takes place purely on some kind of Noir planet, color will be something

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A Short Guide To Unusual Chronology - One young and one old version of a character circle a clock.
Writing
Fred Johnson

A Short Guide To Unusual Chronology

Time: you can ignore it, but you can’t escape it. With that sobering thought out of the way, let’s examine just what can be done about time in fiction. Just like in the real world, time and chronology will be present in your fiction whether you want them to be or not. You can choose

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How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story - A character pedals a bike, the front basket laden with packages.
Writing
Robert Wood

How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story

Editing your story is, if we’re honest, more than half the battle of completing it. The first draft is a rush of creativity, but it’s in the editing that you turn it into a well-oiled machine that (crucially) is more concerned with entertaining the reader than acting as an outlet for the author. The technical,

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Your Research Can’t Stop With The Internet – Here’s Where To Go - An author stands in front of shelves of books.
Writing
Robert Wood

Your Research Can’t Stop With The Internet – Here’s Where To Go

If you want to create something unique, research is a must. We’ve said as much before, but what we haven’t told you is that the internet isn’t really enough. To tell the reader something they didn’t already know, to mine the details that make your work feel realistic, to hit the third draft and suddenly

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