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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...
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On Writing Space
Dina NayeriI’ve been searching for a suitable writing space—a place that fits my mood, that feels sacred and creative and peaceful, that coaxes the...
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Plot and Pacing
Simon Van BooyFor an author’s first book, I would suggest adhering to a basic plot structure, then deviating where and if it feels right
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Research Your Life
Alexander CheeYou know the least about your life precisely because, for living in it, you might barely notice it. You are from a place and you believe you know...