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Your Readers Are Not Reading the Book You Wrote

What suggestive flowers and Wuthering Heights have to do with how your wirting impacts readers...

row of books with purple flowers and one with a yellow flower
How I Choose a #RevPit Winner

How I choose a #RevPit winner during the annual manuscript contest. ...

Evaluate Your Story With A Reverse Outline

Pansters, please don’t abandon this post before you give it a chance. I promise I’m not here to ...

How to Write Compelling and Balanced Backstory

It’s not an overstatement to say that backstory can make or break your book. Too much, and your re...

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language

Dialogue is a great tool to establish relationships between your characters and deepen emotional con...

A Perfectionist’s Guide to a Crappy First Draft

Nanowrimo: A Perfectionist's Guide to Crappy First Drafts. Hi NanoWriMo-ers and non-NaNo-ers. I was...

How to Escape the Show, Don’t Tell Trap

You read it again and again, repeating in your mind: I thought I was showing. This looks like showin...


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