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Intro For some writers, picking a point of view for their stories might be a bit of an afterthought, something that they don’t really plan out. Other writers might just have a certain one that they always default to without even considering other options. There’s nothing wrong with either of these, of course, but I…
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Intro There are a lot of siblings in my stories. Come to think of it, most of my main characters have had at least one sibling, sometimes more. A lot of this probably comes from growing up with siblings myself, but there’s also just the simple fact that siblings can add so much to the…
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Intro When it comes to writing, I rarely ever go in without a plan. For shorter things, like flash fiction and short stories, that plan might just be a basic idea in my head of how events are going to play out but, for longer projects like novels, I usually need more than a basic…
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Intro As someone who has written mostly in the young adult genre, I have to write a lot of characters that are in their teens. The teenage years are, as we all know, an…interesting period of life. It’s a transitioning phase, full of both physical and mental change, which can be confusing and frustrating—all of…
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Intro As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an artist along with a writer, and being able to do my own artwork has proven to be a very useful—and fun—skill to have, especially when paired with my writing. I’m fortunate enough to have an advantage that a lot of writers don’t have, as I don’t necessarily have…
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Intro Unless you’re writing something that takes place in the real world, with absolutely no made-up locations added to it, you’re going to have to do a bit of worldbuilding. Whether your story’s set in the modern world in a made-up town, or on a totally different planet, it’s important to have at least a…
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Intro I’m just going to go right out and say that I love writing action scenes. Whether they’re fight scenes, chase scenes, or anything in between, they’ve always been one of my favorite things to write. They pretty much guarantee excitement and also often serve as a great place to show how characters act under…
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Intro One of the most common writing questions I see online is how to write a character who is a different gender from you—especially a main character. And I think it’s great that people are trying to be more conscious and respectful when it comes to writing characters who aren’t the same gender as them,…
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Intro If you’re a writer on social media, you’ve probably seen all sorts of accounts posting writing advice pretty much daily, telling you the many dos and don’ts of this particular creative pursuit. Most of these are pretty common, repeated over and over again by multiple different accounts, but others are less so. Today, I’m…
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Writing good dialogue is one of the most important things that fiction writers have to know how to do, at least in my opinion. Not only is dialogue one of—if not the—best way to give the reader information about the plot, world, and characters, but it’s also a lot of what makes the characters feel…
