Grabbing your reader from the get-go is probably the single most important task for your first chapter. Here are some tips on how to do just that.
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Why Writers Should Trust Their Story Instinct
Trusting your gut is something that can make you and your writing truly unique.
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Captain America’s 10-Step Guide to Writing a Likable Hero
In order for your readers to like your book, you need to give them likable characters. Ones that they can identify with and care about. Here are some helpful hints on how to do just that.
The Benefits of a Clueless Character
A great way to deal with providing your readers with much-needed information without info dumps and endless backstory.
In the Chorus That Surrounds Every Writer, Listen to the Voice That’s Your Own
There are so many voices to listen to when learning the writing craft. Lorraine Devon Wilke suggests that you listen to your own.
In the Chorus That Surrounds Every Writer, Listen to the Voice That’s Your Own
Are You Asking These Important Questions About Your Fantasy Settings?
Building the world for your fantasy novel can take you places you never expected to go. Think big—no—awesomely huge and outside the box. Here are some questions to ask yourself to help you do just those things.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/are-you-asking-these-important/
How to Strengthen Your Book’s Thematic Motif Through Repetition
Choosing to use repetition to drive home your theme requires you to choose the how and the when with more craftiness than bluntness. Be wise in these choices and get it just right.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/strengthening-thematic-motif-through/
Representation in Fiction: How to Write Characters Whose Experiences Are Outside of Your Own
Writing only what you know can be a very limiting dictate, especially when it comes to writing fiction. So much of what seeks to pour out of our brains is outside our experience. Award-winning writer Diana Pho suggests some tools to assist us in writing outside our experience(s) and doing it well.
PLOT HOLES AND POTHOLES: 8 COMMON MISTAKES READERS HATE—AND HOW TO FIX THEM
How to deal with the mistakes and mishaps you missed while you were writing your masterpiece.
https://annerallen.com/2018/02/plot-holes-and-pot-holes-8-common-mistakes/
Third-Person Limited: Analyzing Fiction’s Most Flexible Point of View
Peter Mountford pens an article that helps us to get a better grip on the most useful POV out there.
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