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When Brevity in Storytelling Is Bad

Photo credit: _.Yann Cœuru ._ via Visual hunt / CC BY When I advise writers on their manuscripts—especially when I’m looking at their first pages—the most consistent feedback I have is: Cut. I...

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How to Make Readers Deeply Connect to Your Characters

Photo credit: Pak Gwei via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-SA Today’s guest post is an excerpt from Hack Your Reader’s Brain by novelist Jeff Gerke (@JeffGerke). There is one secret ingredient to crafting a...

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5 On: Elizabeth Marro

In this 5 On interview, author Elizabeth Marro (@EGMarro) discusses her good writing days and her bad writing days, literary vs. commercial fiction, and what she learned from the sale and marketing of...

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How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and...

Photo credit: jan buchholtz via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND Today’s post is adapted from The Emotional Craft of Fiction (Writer’s Digest Books) by agent Donald Maass (@DonMaass). There are three primary...

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The Importance of a Strong Opening Scene

Photo credit: Hernan Piñera via Visual Hunt / CC BY-SA Today’s guest post is adapted from the Writing & Selling Your Mystery Novel: Revised and Expanded by Hallie Ephron (@HallieEphron). No...

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When Brevity in Storytelling Is Bad

Photo credit: _.Yann Cœuru ._ via Visual hunt / CC BY When I advise writers on their manuscripts—especially when I’m looking at their first pages—the most consistent feedback I have is: Cut. I...

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How to Make Readers Deeply Connect to Your Characters

Photo credit: Pak Gwei via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-SA Today’s guest post is an excerpt from Hack Your Reader’s Brain by novelist Jeff Gerke (@JeffGerke). There is one secret ingredient to crafting a...

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5 On: Elizabeth Marro

In this 5 On interview, author Elizabeth Marro (@EGMarro) discusses her good writing days and her bad writing days, literary vs. commercial fiction, and what she learned from the sale and marketing of...

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How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and...

Photo credit: jan buchholtz via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND Today’s post is adapted from The Emotional Craft of Fiction (Writer’s Digest Books) by agent Donald Maass (@DonMaass). There are three primary...

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The Importance of a Strong Opening Scene

Photo credit: Hernan Piñera via Visual Hunt / CC BY-SA Today’s guest post is adapted from the Writing & Selling Your Mystery Novel: Revised and Expanded by Hallie Ephron (@HallieEphron). No...

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