Category: fiction writing
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Friday’s Findings 04.06.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Loved ‘Ready Player One’? Check out these 8 Books Margaret Atwood’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction Amazon to Spend a Billion Dollars to License “The Three-Body Problem”? Using Third Person vs First Person Novel Narratives What Mystery Propels Your Novel? View my Consortium SF Series at…
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Scrivener Tip: Keeping Track of Characters
I have many characters in my novel, both major and minor. Here’s the method I use in Scrivener to keep track of characters in my books series. My books are science fiction, so consistency in the odd spelling of non-Earth names is important–but I was going crazy trying to spell an alien’s name the same…
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My Fiction Writing Toolkit
When I write, I motivate myself by reviewing some of my Fiction Writing Tools. For some reason they get me going. Below are articles from this blog that are sure to motivate you: Character Character Workshop Temptations to Avoid Conflict Conflict Workshop Description Describe an Object Ten Ways Dialogue Subtext Plot Hero’s Journey Three Act…
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The Only Time I’ve Regretted Being a Book Lover
My house, being over twenty-years-old, needed new floors. The hardest aspect of this remodeling wasn’t replacing the carpet with wood. It wasn’t the dust. It wasn’t every room in the house in disarray. It wasn’t moving furniture around. It was boxing up all my books. And I have a ton of books–in almost every room.…
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Keeping the Distance
Scott Nicholson says in Seven Bad Habits of Unsuccessful Writers: Newer writers tend to rely on “He saw,” “He felt,” “He smelled,” “He tasted,” or “He heard” instead of just letting the actions or sensations occur. It shows a lack of confidence. If you have done a good job of securing your character viewpoint, then…
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Hello Darkness
Writing a scene in which I dragged out a villainous character from an unused rough draft of a novel–one I wrote seven years ago. Hello my wicked friend. Do your stuff. View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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Friday’s Findings 03.16.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: 15 Reasons Why Your Book Isn’t Selling What writing rules do you live by (and which ones do you break)? Re-reading your work 3 Ways to Quit Waiting for “Perfect” Writing Conditions Exercising is a good analogy for writing View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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Friday’s Findings 03.09.18
Here are some articles on marketing as a self-published author I’ve read lately: New Author? 3 Tips To Help You To Outline Your Novel How to build a book audience: 6 smart methods Book Promotion: Do This, Not That How to Get Book Reviews on Amazon Sell More Books With These Critical Cover Rules Writing…
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Consortium: The Books
The Consortium. A supposed “utopia” where thousands of planets benefit from financial and cultural unity. Where neurological experiences and emotions are converted to energy via mysterious orbs. Where travel from one end of the galaxy to the other in mere hours is possible thanks to the dimension called The WhereHow. Where a mysterious being named…
