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Stronger Structure Can Save Your Muddy Middle

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In a guest post on Writers Helping Writers, Jami Gold says that paying closer attention to traditional story structure can help you bolster a...

Please Don’t Call Me Beautiful

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There's a fine line between "not enough" and "too much" that writers must tread in their fiction. Too many characters or too few? Too...

The Fine Line Between Real and Imagined in Historical Characters

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When writing about real people in historical fiction, especially when an historical person is a main character, writers have to walk a fine line...

A Writer’s Greatest Super Power

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If we got to choose, we'd probably find it easy to pick our superpower: flight, invisibility, mind-reading, time travel. If we were limited to...

Your Hero Has to Fail

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In writing, as in life, the best lessons and the sweetest victories come after we fail. While we want our protagonist to succeed in...

Planning and Navigating Your Novel’s Muddy Middle

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It's common wisdom that the middle section of your novel is the hardest part to write, especially when you're tackling your first long project...

The Difference Between Conflict and Tension

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In a guest post on the Killzone blog, Becca Puglisi of the Writers Helping Writers blog discusses the difference between conflict and narrative tension. Puglisi...

A Call to Action: Your Story’s Inciting Incident

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Every story has to start somewhere. You can start with your protagonist waking up in the morning or looking at themselves in the mirror...

Blending Facts and Imagination in Historical Fiction

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Writers who use historical settings or real-life characters in their work must walk a fine line between hewing too closely to biography and veering...

The Three R’s of Editing

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Unless you're a rare genius or a sloppy typist who publishes your latest novel on Amazon the weekend after you finish writing it, you...

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