Chapter Breaks & Titles: What Are Our Options?
For all the writing advice in the world, there’s comparatively little about chapters specifically, such as if or how we should title them.
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Overwhelmed? What Do You Do? My Blog Announcement…
If we’re not careful, we can burn out or suffer serious consequences. So once in a while, we all need to evaluate our workload and reprioritize…even me.
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4 Tips for Creating the Right Impression of Our Characters
Last time, we discussed how to introduce our characters. Now, here are 4 tips for ensuring we’re giving readers the right impressions of our characters.
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Making a Good First Impression with Our Characters
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re exploring how to introduce our characters to readers.
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How Should We Format Non-Verbal Communication?
If our story includes telepathy or text messages and the like, what are some of our formatting options for non-verbal communication passages?
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What’s the Point of Foreshadowing?
To increase reader satisfaction, we want to give our story meaning. How can we use foreshadowing to make our story feel purposeful and meaningful?
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What Do Readers Want from a Story’s POV?
Our story is—in many respects—what our story’s POV tells readers it is. So what do we want readers to get out of our story and chosen POV?
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Is Our Story’s Point of View Really What We Think It Is?
Third-person POV ranges from the most distant to the deepest perspectives, so how can we tell where our story falls on the POV spectrum to avoid problems?
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What Does It Mean to “Write to Market”?
The advice “write to market” often causes a strong reaction. What does it mean? Can we benefit from writing to market without selling out?
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Breaking the “Rules”: Will It Be Easy or Hard?
Much of writing is subjective, so it can be hard to know how to treat writing advice. Is it a hard-and-fast rule, a guideline, or a personal preference?
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