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Writing Recommendation #5: No Cold Starts

Howdy, Today I thought I'd share one of the best pieces of writing advice I think I’ve ever encountered. A couple of years ago I saw...

Writing Recommendation #4: Listen to your Writing

Howdy, I recently finished The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird. Wow. What can I say? Scads of storytelling advice fill each page. Most his...

New Story Live

Howdy, Happy Monday! The Future of Our Prosperity is up at http://www.bewilderingstories.com/. Here's a teaser: in a dystopian future,...

Writing Recommendation #3: Emotional Thesaurus

Howdy, Struggle with telling opposed to showing characters’ emotional reactions? I have. Still do, but I'm improving. In my quest to make...

Writing Recommendation #2: Avoid Talking Heads

Howdy, What's worse than a character or characters spewing huge blocks of dialogue without any intervening action? Pages and pages and...

Writing Recommendation #1: Voice

Howdy, Since you're here, you're probably an aspiring author, just like me. This is the first post in a series recommending books that...

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