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Playing With Status
Judy SternlightAs an independent developmental editor who specializes in fiction, I help writers to fine-tune their novels. Sometimes a central character needs...
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How to Start Your Novel
David GordonOf course there is no one way. When it comes to writing, my motto is “whatever gets me to the next page,” but page one is often the hardest
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Dialogue or Conversation?
Jason StarrI learned a lot about crime fiction writing in an odd place—the theater. While I was completing my MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College, I...
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The Hidden Power in Each Perspective
Kathleen AlcottPerhaps because it’s the narrative mode that most resembles our interior as people, first person narration is the natural impulse of many developing writers
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Tips for Writing Dialogue
Teddy WayneThere are three forms dialogue can take: summary (They talked all class about dialogue), indirect speech (And did they enjoy the stories about dialogue?
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When Logic Met Fiction
Tracy O’NeillStudents of logic and rhetoric will be familiar with the syllogistic formula: major premise, minor premise, conclusion. All wax melts
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How to Write a Sex Scene
Rebecca SchiffBut what if I’m not filthy enough? you think. What if Bruce Springsteen is busy? Most sex scenes are read and forgotten
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What a Nude Drawing Class Taught Me About POV in Fiction
Patricia Park“For years I took the old creative writing adage of ‘show, don’t tell’ to heart. I’d detail every trip my characters took...
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Notes on Dialogue
Tracy O’NeillAt a certain point in their careers, most fiction writers, in their critiques of dialogue, cease to complain, ‘But no one would really say that!
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How to Read Like a Writer
Gabriel RothThe first step in writing a novel is reading novels, is one of those truistic bits of canonical wisdom. Most would-be novelists are pleased to...