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Six Steps on How to Effectively Self-edit your Story

Despite how talented and experienced you are as a writer, you can't publish your story on the first draft. Editing is a necessary process every fictional narrative needs to go through to make it look like the author had it all figured out and accurate...

Six Objectives of an Exceptional Self-editing Process

Completing your first draft is definitely a huge achievement, but that is where a more tedious task begins — the editing process. This process takes your story to another level that amazes readers and critics. You need to focus a significant amount of time editing...

Ways Notable Writers Approach the Research Process

Research is essential to storytelling in varying degrees. Some stories require exhaustive research on the character's profession, the setting of the story or the time in history when the story occurs. It all depends on what information is crucial to effectively tell a compelling story;...

Suspense: A Clever Author's Huge Gift to Eager Readers

A critical aspect of any novel is suspense. Suspense creates questions in readers' minds and triggers the problem-solving part of the brain to anticipate possible answers. Your reader will continue reading to find the answers and see if any possibilities they've imagined were correct. The...

5 Evocative Ways to Introduce a Character

A strong opening in storytelling requires you to present a character. Every character is created out of specific details and both writers and readers should be able to identify those details the first time they meet a character. And in introducing a character, you need...

Applying The 5 Ws of Journalism to Storytelling

Both new and experienced writers are afraid of a blank page. It is no small feat to climb the mountain of starting a new story, and when you consider what goes into the initial stages of writing a fictional narrative, you might wonder how many...

3 Ways Fictional Characters are NOT Real People

In creating compelling characters, you need to draw inspiration from people in the real world. The aim is always to make your characters as realistic as possible so that readers can create a bond with them. But fictional characters are not real people, and knowing...

3 Essential Purposes of Dialogue in Storytelling

Every component of narrative fiction must be there to serve a purpose. Nothing is included just for the heck of it. The setting, the description, the exposition and even the most minor character should be necessary to further the plot. And this rule of necessity...

Understanding the 3 Third Person Narration Style

Despite the unique abilities of the first-person narrator, there are still limitations to what they can reveal and how they can be used to advance a story. And some stories just need a third-person perspective to efficiently deliver the desired effect. Ironically, some third-person narration...

4 Types of the First-Person Narrator

Achieving first-person narration in fiction writing is not easy. For a character to evoke himself and other characters and at the same time give an engaging account of a series of events is no small feat. To use a first-person narrator for your story, you...