Writers on Writing
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
The Hidden Power in Each Perspective
Kathleen Alcott
Perhaps 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Tips for Writing Dialogue
Teddy Wayne
There 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
When Logic Met Fiction
Tracy O’Neill
Students of logic and rhetoric will be familiar with the syllogistic formula: major premise, minor premise, conclusion. All wax melts
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
How to Write a Sex Scene
Rebecca Schiff
But 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Notes on Dialogue
Tracy O’Neill
At 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
How to Read Like a Writer
Gabriel Roth
The 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
On Writing Space
Dina Nayeri
I’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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Plot and Pacing
Simon Van Booy
For 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Research Your Life
Alexander Chee
You 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...
