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One Amazing Perspective Shift to Make Scene Writing Easier

Guest Blogger — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:28:30 +0000

If you love feeling immersed in the lives and emotional dramas of fictional characters, then shifting focus from external to internal builds plot organically.

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Writing How to: Piecing Together the Perfect Scene

Guest Blogger — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Don't freeze at the sight of your blank page. Lori Freeland shares tips on how to piece together the perfect scene like she learned to create a painting.

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Location. Location. Location: Bring Your Book to Life Part II

Guest Blogger — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:39:00 +0000

We can get so caught up writing witty banter, choreographing every move that we forget to write in a backdrop. Location will bring your book to life.

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Including Believable Sensory Details for Unfamiliar Experiences

Guest Blogger — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:05:06 +0000

Sights, sounds, and smells often evoke powerful memories. Miffie Seideman shares accurate online resources for properly identifying and describing drugs accurately in your stories.

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Linear Writing vs. the Scattergun Approach – Which Are You?

writersinthestorm — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:00:49 +0000

by Laura Drake In the last Writers in the Storm ‘throwdown’ (if you missed it, it was character driven vs. plot driven writing.) I was more than willing to admit that both sides of the argument are valid – even necessary to a great story. But this time? The other side of the coin […]

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Confessions of an A.D.D. Writer

writersinthestorm — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:54:49 +0000

It took me years to discover that I am an A.D.D. writer. For more than a decade I’ve gone from manuscript to manuscript, even jumping from one to another then back again. I wasn’t having a writing problem, I was having a finishing problem.

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