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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...

Write Forward, Edit Backwards

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When we write, most of us start at the beginning and chug through to the end, and we edit the same way. But sometimes,...

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...

Don’t Stop Dreaming Big

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Sometimes, you have to do the thing, even if you aren't ready to do it. Even if you don't have the skill. Even if...

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...

Homework: Study Your Writing Strengths and Weaknesses

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Very few writers excel at every aspect of our craft. If we did, we wouldn't revere writers like Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, or John...

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