Tag: Writing Help
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My Editing Process
Hi, everyone! Today I’m going to be talking about my editing process. I briefly discussed this in an Instagram post when I was posed the question not too long ago, but I thought it might be neat to recap it here and possibly go into a little bit more depth…
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My Favorite/Least Favorite Writing Tropes
I am literally SO EXCITED to talk with you about my favorite and least favorite writing tropes today! I wasn’t 100% sure at first whether I was going to include this in my writing discussions, but it’s such a fun topic that I figured why not?
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Marketing Ideas & Strategies for Aspiring Authors
Today I wanted to discuss some marketing strategies and ideas with you guys. This post is probably going to be more geared toward writers that are looking to self-pub or have already self-published a novel or two, but I hope that no matter what publishing path you’re looking at, you’ll be able to take some…
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Don’t Be Sorry, Be Better: On Themes in Writing
Themes in writing is one of the hardest things to convey well. And that, I believe, is due to one reason: themes tend to come off as preachy…
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The Importance of Genre & Target Audience
Today and I wanted to discuss the importance of knowing what genre you’re going to write in and what target audience you want to write for. A crucial mistake beginning writers make is not knowing what specific genre they’re going to write in, and an even bigger mistake is not knowing who their audience is…
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What’s in a Name?
For some people, the biggest struggle—aside from titling a story and actually writing the story—is naming their characters. Admittedly, this is a difficult process, because it’s never the same…
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On Characters
Here are the topics we’ll be discussing in today’s post: Character Development, Keeping Character Voices Distinct, How to Manage Multiple/Differing Point of Views.
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Pantsing vs. Outlining
Every author has a different method they follow for their pre-writing process. There are those of us that love our detailed outlines, those of us that love to write by the seat of our pants (hence the name “Pantser”), and those of us that like to be caught in between, where maybe an outline gets…
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My Pre-Writing Process
When coming up with the topics for this blog event, I was asked to share about my outlining methods. It’s a wonderful topic, but I’ll admit that at first I felt pretty confused. How would I go about discussing my outlining methods? Did I even have methods? And the more I thought about what goes…
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