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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫-𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬

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»“Discoverability” is the ability of people … to find your book … This requires you to spend a bit of time, energy, and possibly money up front. But after that, you want people … to do all of the work to find you.«

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»Hayao Miyazaki has a word for what many stories are missing: “Ma.” It’s a Japanese concept often translated as gap, pause, empty space, or negative space. … Indeed, I’d describe the idea as pure gold for authors.«

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»It’s highly unlikely you’ll catch the great wave that will make you the giant bestseller of the century. Instead, write a great book about something you’re passionate about. Promote it aggressively.«

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𝐊𝐨𝐛𝐨, 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞, 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞, & 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞

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»Hosting a guest blogger offers a couple of benefits to your site. … it exposes others to your blog and website … This brings new visitors to your site, and many of them probably have never heard of you or your book.«

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»Editors often use Track Changes … so the author can … decide herself which changes to make … you’ll want to be familiar with using Track Changes so that you can get your manuscript into a publishable form.«

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»… too often, new writers fall into the error of telling instead of showing. This occurs, for example, when the narrator states how a character feels rather than using … details from which the feeling can be inferred.«

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»When creating your story’s setting or explaining what your characters are doing, you’ll need to use imagery. Imagery is necessary to move along the plot and to establish tone.«

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»As authors, we have all sorts of goals—validation, publication, legacy, fame, and fortune among them. … A writer is a leader … I came up with eight striking similarities between writers and leaders. You may come up with more.«

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»We have been told … that a story is made up of a beginning, middle and end. … If a story is primarily what “happens”, then maybe so but … that fallacy leads to intrigue-dependent and only partially involving storytelling.«

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𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬

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»Here’s what we as writers need to understand about genre: it simultaneously does and does not matter.«

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»There are passive PR opportunities at our fingertips that don’t involve personal pitching. Here are some tips that even the most introverted among us can live with.«

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»Subtext is the implied meaning beneath what characters explicitly say, do, or understand. In fiction, it allows readers to infer emotions, motives, relationships, themes, and backstory …«

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»Your novel can begin and end with the exact same words. You can return to the same physical location with a character who is changed significantly. You can repeat an object, image, gesture, or situation. …«

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»Five Minutes is a nonfiction only online literary journal with an unusual premise. They only publish 100-word pieces that explore five minutes of the author’s life. These are very much “micro memoirs” …«

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»Characters are all-important in your spec screenplay or unpublished novel. Good characterisation feels authentic, layered and relatable. But how do we get there?«

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»Freytag’s Pyramid … is one of the oldest formal story-structure models still in use. Developed by 19th-century critic Gustav Freytag, it was designed to analyze classical Greek and Shakespearean tragedies—but it remains useful …«

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