thescriptor:

By Jesse Hines

Most of us who are writers of any kind (journalists, authors, bloggers, students, freelancers, whatever) want to write with style. After all, most of us enjoy reading stylish writing.

We’d love to be the next Faulkner, Hemingway, or (insert…

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shannahmcgill:

1. You can’t write on your current idea because the scene you need to work on is boring.

Either delete that scene or change it so it interests you. If it bores you, it bores the readers. Remember, excitement doesn’t come from fast movements and explosions. It comes from a good plot. If something…

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sunscraps:

This is an amazing site! Everyone should check it out.

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tomavitabile:

In the laws of nature, everything happens because of polarity. At every level of existence, action is occurring, atoms are moving, molecules arranging because of a difference of polarity. An entity with less attractive forces being drawn to a more attractive force. Even…

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fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

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So You Want to Write a Fantasy: Writing Female Characters

So You want to Write a Fantasy: Culture

*SYWTWAF: Writing What you Don’t know

A list of adjectives to describe physical attributes, Or, As it turns out, I could go to…

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cforresterthorne:

1. There Are Things Important to a Story besides the Story

This notion is wrong on every conceivable level. Continuity, canon, originality are all irrelevant to telling a good story, and more often than not compromise and hamstring good storytelling. This all got…

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