Category: writing tips
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A point of view on first person point of view
Well into a draft of my novel I realized I suffered from info-dump-itis. I know better than to do this, but I had such a great world I had created and felt the need to cram it down the reader’s throat. Every scene told the story from a different character’s viewpoint in third person. As…
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Who has time to write a blog? No one.
I’m at the coffee shop eating my oatmeal with walnuts, brown sugar and raisins. I’m thinking, “I want to write that blog entry on why I switched to writing my novel in first person.” But first I have a class I start teaching tonight and I haven’t outlined the syllabus. I need to mulch the…
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I survived bootcamp
I feel like I’ve grown the most as a fiction writer due to some spontaneous decisions I’ve made. One of these was doing National Novel Writing Month on the first day it started. I made a split decision on November 1st to write a 50,000 first draft of a novel by November 30th. And I…
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Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk
Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club).
