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How To Write A Character Who Can Carry A Series - A superhero carries a stack of books.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Write A Character Who Can Carry A Series

Launching a series is golden. It’s that moment in Minesweeper when you hit the right square and a safety zone unfurls. You have eager readers for your next book. You have an agent waiting to read your manuscript. You have characters and backdrops for a long, long time. Or… do you? It’s not easy to

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How To Reference Pop Culture In Your Fiction - Characters reminiscent of the Iron Giant and Scott Summers wave at each other (the Iron Giant character wears Superman's S).
Writing
Fred Johnson

How To Reference Pop Culture In Your Fiction

There you are, writing some contemporary or YA fiction, when suddenly you feel the urge to drop in some real-world references to other well-known franchises. Maybe you want to let your readers know your character is a video game nerd by namedropping Ghouls ’n Ghosts, or maybe you want to draw conscious stylistic parallels between

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How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 2 - A young boy holds a stick, his shadow that of a possibly evil, sword-wielding warrior.
Writing
Robert Wood

How To Use Foreshadowing With Confidence – Part 2

This is the second in a two-part article on foreshadowing. For the first installment, click here. In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the versatility of foreshadowing and how you can use it to improve your story. In this, the concluding part of the article, we’re going to turn our attention to the

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NaNoWriMo Week 5: How To Finish And Edit Your Story - An old man holds up a finished draft.
Writing
Robert Wood

NaNoWriMo Week 5: How To Finish And Edit Your Story

Hello authors, and welcome to the fifth article in our month-long National Novel Writing Month coverage. It’s the last week of NaNoWriMo, and you don’t get all of it, but there’s still time left to hit your goals and come away feeling proud. Last week, I covered how to conclude your story, so this week

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