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Learn to Write Creatively: December 2009
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Top Mistakes in Fiction Writing. This baby monkey has nothing to do with today's post. I just love monkeys! I could watch the chimps at the zoo all day long. Sometimes they make more sense than my kids. Even literary fiction has conflict, usually internal: the hero has some private pain he must overcome or.or what? Too much telling- not enough showing. It's because we are vis...
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Learn to Write Creatively: September 2010
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Thursday, September 9, 2010. What Goes On in There? Ever wonder what in the world goes on at a publishing house as potential best-sellers are created or discarded in a single vote? My agent, Rachelle Gardner, has an excellent post on what goes on in a publishing house as the decision is made whether to buy an author's manuscript or not. Take a peek inside the boardroom. Posted by Lea Ann McCombs. The Clar...
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Learn to Write Creatively: If Only...
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Thursday, April 1, 2010. May every editor who reviews your work have this problem! Posted by Lea Ann McCombs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to the World of Creative Writing. Welcome to the site filled with tips, links, and advice from the pros on how to sharpen, hone, and advance your writing skills. Feel free to browse and follow the links for a world of free information on the internet.
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Learn to Write Creatively: April 2010
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Monday, April 12, 2010. Spring is a great time for writers. Nature explodes in vivid array, as if to apologize for the drab winter. My house seems to come alive after a near-death experience. How are you doing at capturing color in your writing? Is to use words to convey the idea of color as though you were describing it to a blind man. How can you make him see red? Posted by Lea Ann McCombs. Think about ...
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Learn to Write Creatively: July 2010
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Thursday, July 22, 2010. You Know You're a Writer If. Borrowed from the writer's e-newsletter, Seekerville, here are some sure-fire ways to tell if you're a REAL writer. YOU KNOW YOU'RE A WRITER IF. Your list of New Year’s Resolutions not only includes your goals but also your motivation and conflict. You never read a dictionary you didn’t like. You turn every real life situation into a “What if! You open...
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Learn to Write Creatively: What's In a Title?
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Thursday, April 8, 2010. What's In a Title? So you've typed the last word and your story or book looks pretty good. But what do you call it? Does it really matter? How important is a title? So how do you come up with a good title? For a book, think about the way it will look on the shelf. The title needs to hint about what's inside. The title should offer a hint of forboding. Is it a romance? The clouds p...
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Learn to Write Creatively
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Sunday, July 4, 2010. Pretty much sums up my writing career thus far! It's all about the business and what's hot at the moment or suspected to be hot this time next year. It's great, it's moving, your skill shines through, but it's not zombie-vampire-Amish-romance, so I don't think it'll sell right now. Next? If you can't play this game long enough,. You're in the wrong business. Posted by Lea Ann McCombs.
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Learn to Write Creatively: What Goes On in There?
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Thursday, September 9, 2010. What Goes On in There? Ever wonder what in the world goes on at a publishing house as potential best-sellers are created or discarded in a single vote? My agent, Rachelle Gardner, has an excellent post on what goes on in a publishing house as the decision is made whether to buy an author's manuscript or not. Take a peek inside the boardroom. Posted by Lea Ann McCombs. The Clar...
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Learn to Write Creatively: November 2009
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Learn to Write Creatively. Sharing hints, rules, and tips from the pros to make your writing better. Monday, November 30, 2009. How much description should you include in your story? Should you wax on about the vibrant colors of the setting sun or merely mention that it was setting? But in these fast-paced times, filled with high-tech, color-enhancing, photo-shopped reality, most readers will skip your eloquent phrases and get on to the story. Your goal as a writer is not to commandeer as many words as y...
