How to Scare Your Readers Using Deep Point of View
How To Scare Your Readers Using Deep Point Of View
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The Cycle of Action-Reaction in Novel Scenes
C.S. Lakin You’re in the middle of reading a book. Suddenly you hear a loud crash outside. It sounds as if a tree just fell on your garage. You run outside and into your driveway. Your mouth drops open. A spaceship—or what appears to be one—has nosedived into your garage and your brand-new BMW
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How to Uncover Your Character’s Emotional Wounds
How To Uncover Your Character’s Emotional Wound
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Passive Voice
The passive voice is often maligned by teachers and professors as a bad writing habit. Or, to put it in the active voice, teachers and professors across the English-speaking world malign the passive voice as a bad writing habit. What is the passive voice? In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you
5 Writing “Rules” That Are Really Guidelines
If you go in search of rules about writing, you’ll find plenty. Some rules you come across will be quite specific, like whether or not to use a comma with a conjunction, and others will be broad, like Strunk and White’s brief but vague directive to “omit needless words.” But when it comes to great writing, not
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