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Even if you’re writing a single title, make your children’s book characters complex enough to live for several books, just in case. Fans loved Brian so much that Paulsen was persuaded to use the character in several other wilderness adventu...
My big writing moment of clarity came when I read Stephen King’s On Writing. In this book, he describes a writing technique that I had not tried, and it worked well for me. He instructed to fully develop your characters first. Create them. ...
I agree with the old adage that “there is only one rule in writing, unfortunately no one knows what it is.” The longer I write and the more I talk with other writers, the more I know that everyone does it differently. Related to that, the b...
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If you're writing one, more power to you! I had a tough time when I started writing novels because in school, no one ever teaches you how to work with the large amount of text you have to deal with when you write a novel (even in college, I...
http://www.fairytalenovels.com/main.cfm?id=28&r1=2.00&r...
Depends on what we’re talking about. If I am looking for feedback on something I’m writing, that might be someone like Karen Joy Fowler or Kelly Link, both of whom volunteered to take time from their own writing to be first readers for my ...
http://www.filamena.com/2009/07/gregory-frost-on-writin...
I can't give you ideas, because that my dear is not your own work. Sucks, huh? But I can help. I have a list of 20 basic plots that you can expand on and incorporate your own ideas into:･ 1. QUEST - the plot involves the Protagonist's se...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090620221...
Haha… Good question! I don't know if this qualifies as advice, but I'm lucky enough to be friends with my favourite author – Jonathan Carroll. Once, when I was complaining to him in an email about how long the submissions process takes, and...
http://kathleenfoucart.livejournal.com/tag/karen%20maho...
I know a lot of people swear by writing classes, critique groups and certain how-to guides. Different things work for different people. I only show one person aside from my agent my work before sending it out to my editor and I've never tak...
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I'm sorry that they are making you feel inadequate. My guess is you are a new graduate, and resume helping advice on the web, and in print seems to leave out that part of the readership. They(authors of the advice) just aren't speaking to y...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903125...
Yea man you need to emphasize on a topic like love for an example. Talk about it metaphorically and describe it somehow and make it seem catchy..
http://help.com/post/152622-would-someone-please-give-o...
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