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5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers

5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 9 “Types of Writers” – Section 7 “Career Writers” With Links to Supplementary Material Each of us has revolutionary ideals within us—we believe in certain morals, values, causes, and beliefs that we would like to see in the world. And these ideals that we have will affect everything from which characters of which ideals play the antagonistic or protagonist role, to the natural consequences of actions. Not to say that we are all trying to topple a class-based system of oppression; but something as simple as illustrating that being nice

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READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING!!!!If you use my stock in any way for any reason you MUST Follow These RULES!!. If you still have questions then ASK ME. Before you start though, What is stock and what is not? ONLY the work in the "STOCK" folders and all the sub folders in that directory may be used as stock, do NOT use my other work as stock. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.Credit and notification. If you use my stock in any way for any reason you MUST Credit/Tag me. Use the following: Null-Entity (https://www.deviantart.com/null-entity) (which is @ Null-Entity with the space removed) or :DevNull-Ent

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5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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5 Tips for Revolutionary Writers

5 Steps for Effectively Critiquing a Story by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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5 Steps for Effectively Critiquing a Story

5 Steps for Effectively Critiquing a Story Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 8 “Editing Your Novel” – Section 1 “Effective Criticism” With Links to Supplementary Material I've discussed some tips for editing—both your own work and the work of others. Today, I'm going to start an ongoing series in partnership with 1deathgod (https://www.deviantart.com/1deathgod) to demonstrate effective strategies for editing a manuscript, which we will continue through the course of many drafts. Please keep in mind that I have requested that all of her excerpts start in their roughest form and that she only make the edits that I recommend, for the sole pu

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4 Tips for Indie Writing

4 Tips for Indie Writing Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 9 “Types of Writers” – Section 3 “Indie Writing” With Links to Supplementary Material Continuing with our series on types of writers, today we'll discuss indie writers. Indie writers are characterized by originality, their abundance of ideas, desire for superb quality, and creativity—countered by a strong repulsion against trends, popular literature, and traditional conventions of writing. The challenge is to balance these two sets of tendencies, and to put indie writing in the most constructive context possible. Tip 1: Think of writing a sto

7 Tips for Editing a Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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7 Tips for Editing a Novel

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 7 Tips for Editing a Novel Once you, a friend, or a client have finished the first draft of any type of work, you reach the editing stage. Unfortunately, I have found very little literature as to the editing process, save for grammar tips and some technical clean-ups. For this reason, I am writing a few quick tips for editing the first draft of a written work—particularly works of fiction. Tip 1: Let the story sit. I have heard that C. S. Lewis let his stories sit an entire year after th

5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Stand Up by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Stand Up

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 5 Steps to Writing Your Story's Stand Up Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 4 “Plot Points” – Section 9 “The Stand Up” With Links to Supplementary Material Within the past few plot-points of Act II, and ever since the Disaster, the mood of your story should have been a constant downhill spiral that finally slowed to a stop in the Second Turning Point, as your protagonist finally determined how to resolve their problem. Now, we finally get to the point where it i

4 Tips for Creating Universe Filler Characters by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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4 Tips for Creating Universe Filler Characters

4 Tips for Creating Universe Filler Characters Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 5 “Characters” – Section 5 “Filler” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.” -Sarah Waters Every character that your audience encounters adds a spice to your story and your world. There is no such thing as a character that exists in a vacuum which

6 Reasons to Write a 2nd Novel Before Publishing by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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6 Reasons to Write a 2nd Novel Before Publishing

6 Reasons to Write a Second Novel before Publishing the First Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 7 “From Story to Art” – Section 5 “A Second Novel” With Links to Supplementary Material After writing my first novel, I gave it to my writing instructor so that he could see what I needed to improve. This process took a long time... a very long time; and so I decided that the only thing to do was to work on a second (and then third) novel before I got the first one back. The result? The two first drafts that I created were, by far, better than the eighth draft of my original novel, and my skills increased through

Dialogue: Getting it Right by Nurturing-Narratives, journal

Dialogue: Getting it Right

Jul 24, 2015

It's been a while since we did a tutorial/guidance blog about creative writing, so here we go! I think I might've touched upon this before somewhere... but here's a thorough article all about dialogue in fiction :nod: Firstly, what purpose does dialogue serve? Often writers (especially beginners overly so) use it without really thinking about it, but dialogue can slow the narrative and draw special attention to an event or relationship. Alternatively, dialogue can speed things up and move the story along. Dialogue can also bring out characters (technique known as characterisation) and it also serves to create background and supply impressio

Plot Twists - A Few Quick Tips by illuminara, literature

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Plot Twists - A Few Quick Tips

First things first--plot twists have to be planned if you really want to pull them off. It’s hard to add a good or even passible plot twist after you’ve already started planning and writing your story. If you think you need a twist because what you’re writing doesn’t seem able to stand on it’s own or isn’t interesting enough without a twist, adding a one in isn’t going to help much. You’ve got to plan the twist from the beginning so that it make sense and, while it still surprises the reader, they won’t feel like you cheated or tried to pull one over on them. Once you know why your story

How to Develop Story Conflict by illuminara, literature

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How to Develop Story Conflict

Conflict is the central element of any story. It’s what keeps us on the edge of our seats and turning page after page until 3:00am. Or, as Wikipedia puts it, narrative conflict is “an inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces. Conflict creates tension and interest in a story by adding doubt as to the outcome.” So how do you create this all-important conflict in your stories? Well, it all starts in the development process. There are three basic steps to developing conflict, and they follow a specific logical progression because, ultimately, developing a good story is an exercise in l

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