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  • Article Writing Tips - 5 Ways to Grab Your Readers' Attention
    If asked how many kinds of writing there are, most of us would create a long list, including fiction, nonfiction, educational, sales, marketing, email, self-help, blog writing, and on and on and on.

    Although you could make a case that each of these talks to a different audience and has different conventions, all of them have the same inherent weakness or strength. Every single one of them!

    They are either boring or interesting.
  • Seven Mistakes That Will Get Your Novel Rejected
    A good novel will grab the reader's attention with its first words, create characters the reader wants to know, create a situation the character must resolve, create suspense, create rising tension, and create a powerful resolution to the story.

    Think of the novel as pure story. Its purpose is first to entertain, then to enlighten. I see these seven common mistakes in almost every first novel or short story I read.
  • Writers Block Myths - What They Mean and How to Beat Them
    We call it writers block and we rail against it as if it was a physical being standing between us and the words needed to fill that empty page. It seems real, almost palpable, and frustrates us to the point that we give up before we even get started.

    Thousands of writers have written thousands of words about how to beat writers block into submission. Theories as to its origin and nature surface regularly. Solutions are tried and abandoned. The irony is: Writers block is a myth.







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