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Revealing Your Character Through Conflict

Do you fight with your fists or with your words? As writers the answer is obvious. But what about your characters, do they fight with their feelings or through logic? And why is it important to identify their reasons for fighting?  First, think of the five...

Rewriting The 7 Rules of Dialog – Part 3

Rule 5: Use Grammar Correctly Never be afraid to break with convention when it serves your story and your readers. Simon spoke before Adam could: “So, you have told your mom? About the visions?” There are editors who would want the colon replaced with a period here but...

Rewriting The 7 Dialog Rules – Part 2

Rule 3: Use “Said” Rather Than Any Other Speaker Attribution Tag You don’t want your story cluttered up with obtrusive attributions, that much is true. When your characters are constantly chortling, retorting, chipping in, exclaiming, and questioning and not actually saying anything, it gets distracting. Your...

Rewriting The 7 Dialog Rules – Part 1

We all know the advice about dialog – your characters should all sound different, only say what needs to be said, use ‘said’ rather than other tags, and so on. Yes, these ideas can put you on the right track but they don’t consider characterization,...

Research Sells Stories

No matter what you are writing, be it a blog, a short story or a novel, research is the key factor in ensuring that your audience is kept captivated. Research is what provides authenticity to a story, it's what makes your readers want to keep reading...

5 Tips to Producing a Real Page-Turner

If there is one thing an author loves to hear from one of their readers is that they just couldn’t put the book down. So what makes a book into a real page-turner? What is it that stops readers from getting on with their chores...

5 Common Mistakes that Interrupt Flow

Being a writer is not easy, no matter how established you are. While the writing part is hard, polishing it up isn’t. By looking at what not to do with sentence structure, you can easily create prose that stands out and engages your readers. You...

Character Habits vs Quirks

The definitions for habits and quirks tend to overlap somewhat and this just confuses things, especially for a new writer. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of a habit is “a settled or regular tendency or practice; an automatic reaction to a certain...

Fiction Writing – Why You Should Never Forget the Small Details

Fictional writing is a work of art and it is created much like a piece of art, one brush stroke at a time. You may already know what your bigger picture will look like but if the small details are left out, the big ones...

10 Rules of Writing a Novel – Part 2

Once you have digested the first five rules, you can move on. These are the only rules you need to follow when writing a novel because, believe me, once you learn these, everything else will follow naturally. Rule 6: Read, Read, and Read Some More Most writers...