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7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 3 “Introductions”
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When a reader first picks up a book, they create an instant connection with the author of the story—formed through a required level of trust just so that the two of you can immerse yourselves in the world you have created. The writer and the reader are, at that point, friends or pleasant acquaintances; and at that moment of relationship and immersion into the realm of story, the characters become just as real as the reader/write
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5 Steps for Creating a Plot Premise
5 Steps for Creating a Plot Premise
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 4 “Creating a Plot” – Section 2 “Plot Premise”
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"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."
-Mel Brooks
Ask a beginning writer what their story is about, and you'll likely be rewarded with a long and tedious monologue about their world, characters, and story ideas—told in such a way that reveals
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Writer's Tip: Show, don't tell.
Show, don’t tell (SDT). It’s one of the few consistent pieces of advice that all writers have heard at one time or another. Even the most amateur of writers parrot it back, but knowing the phrase doesn’t necessarily mean that we understand it, or how to implement it.
So what does “Show, don’t tell.” really mean? SDT is the idea that instead of telling your readers what’s happening in a story, you show them. This seems like an abstract concept to most of us, but what it boils down to is this: using words to give your readers an idea without having to directly state it. There are many ways good writers
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EDIT 3/7/2013: Adding a bit more warning about self-publishing (lack of) success and agents abroad, based on the very good advice of ^neurotype.
A companion to my now-retitled Idiot's Guide to Lit Mag Publishing and my Publishing Resources List, where you can find resources for all the steps of this guide, include query letter writing, finding an agent, marketing, and more.
I wrote this during a heatwave so if anything looks wrong or misspelled please yell at me.
A companion to my now-retitled Idiot's Guide to Lit Mag Publishing and my Publishing Resources List, where you can find resources for all the steps of this guide, include query letter writing, finding an agent, marketing, and more.
I wrote this during a heatwave so if anything looks wrong or misspelled please yell at me.
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What if you self publish your story to be in a book?