Category: Qualities of Good Fiction
Backstory Isn’t Story
You will try to make your reader care about the character you've created. You'll do this by telling your reader all about the character's background,…
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Simple and Concrete VS. Layered and Abstract
Simple and concrete is the goal. This is where good writing lives. Layered and abstract is what most beginning writers produce. Layered and abstract is…
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What Great Writers Do
This is what great writers do. They think deeply and critically about the human condition and they come up with a great idea for a…
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A Round-up…of Facts about the Daily Effort of Writing Fiction
If after a few attempts a particular sentence or section is not working, delete it. Following this maxim has never let me down. The remaining…
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Two Facts
Two facts about life: When people walk into our lives they don’t hand us a piece of paper or wear a t-shirt that tells us…
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