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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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8 Tips for Writing Dialogue for your Characters
8 Tips for Writing Dialogue for your Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 4 “Dialogue”
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Dialogue is a tricky topic, and for two key reasons. The first is that creating realistic dialogue is a difficult skill to master—even in day-to-day life—without speech coming out plastic, pointless, or otherwise unconvincing. The second problem is that the proper dialogue for your story is deeply rooted within the other elements—the characters, the setting, the genre, etc... Because of this, writing dialogue tha
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8 Things Publishers are looking for in your Poetry
8 Things Publishers are looking for in your Poetry
While I am, primarily, a novelist, I have had a bit of experience with poetry. I've been published, worked for a small poetry magazine, and was promoted to Editor-In-Chief of the magazine for about a year. As such, I know quite a bit about what magazines look for when selecting a poem to publish, and would like to share my knowledge with you. Writers of fiction will also do well to note these suggestions, as they also apply to fiction.
Quality 1: Your poem must speak to universal human experience.
Don't get me wrong, many good poems come from personal experience. However, they must speak t
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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?