The inciting incident in your novel is going to be the event, early in the story, that will interrupt life-as-we-know-it…
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Storytelling
5 Strategies for Writing a Prologue
Real quick, before I get into strategies for writing a prologue, I want to address the whole prologue thing. Basically,…
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1,2,3 Activate: The Secret to Writing Setting
A farmhouse, a beach, the principal’s office, church. These are the kinds of places we think about when we think…
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Types of Editing: Understanding the Differences
If you’ve never hired an editor to help you with a creative writing project, there’s a good chance you don’t…
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The First Line of Your Memoir
The first line of your memoir (or essay or novel) might come to you early on, fully formed. Or it…
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Beyond Tall, Dark, and Handsome: How to Describe Characters
The ability to describe is the key to great storytelling, but when it comes to depicting characters, our first impulse…
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