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Week 2: Blog Awards
Week 3: Major Minor Characters
Week 4: From the Stacks
Week 5: 3 Things...that make me throw the book across the room
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500 Club
Would you like to play along with the 500 Club, but don't have your own blog or website? Simply copy and paste your work into the box below and one of us will read it. This isn't a competition, but a way for you to get the words flowing. No need to write in a vacuum. Let us see what you can do.
Tag Archives: writing advice
Setting, Characters, Plot, Style, and The Big 4 + 3
by Jack Mangan Storyteller job 1: Transport Your Audience Ensure that some element or elements of your work takes them to another place, where they can feel something poignant, something that will impact their experience of the real world. Whether … Continue reading
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Tagged characters, Dune, Guest Author, Harry Potter, how to write, Jack Mangan, JK Rowling, Lord of the Rings, plot, podiobooks.com, setting, Stan Lee, Star Trek, Star Wars, style, Tolkein, writing advice, writing resources
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The Two Manuscript Dilemma
by Darcy Pattison Did you know that when you write something and type the end, you really have two manuscripts? There’s the manuscript in your head and the manuscript on the page and they don’t match up. The manuscript in … Continue reading
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Tagged Darcy Pattison, fiction, Guest Author, how to revise, manuscript, novel, revision, Writer Resources, writing advice
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An Honest Look at Being Published
by Anthony Huso When Amy asked me to guest at PLC, the first thing I did was go to the site and read how the group started. What I found was an earnest story about a few people standing in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Huso, Arts, aspiring writer, Book Writing, Bookselling, Cyril Connolly, getting published, Guest Author, Publish, publishing, The Last Page, Tor Books, truth about writing, Writer, Writer Resources, Writers Resources, Writing, writing advice, writing honest
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Are You Telling The Story, or Vice-Versa?
by Tom Leveen I’ve yet to meet a writer who hasn’t admitted at least once that his or her characters are the ones telling the story; that the writer is but the humble servant to the protagonist’s and antagonist’s whims. … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Guest Author, novel, Party, plot, Protagonist, Pygmalion, Random House, Tom Leveen, Writer, writing advice, YA novel, Zero
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