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Month: March 2016

More Thoughts on Voice

If my voice is condensing into a style through the years, I will sooner or later have to make peace with it

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Hook, Line, and Sinker (2)

Every chapter should have at least three "beats". Each beat must be connected with either "therefore" or "but".

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10 Kinds of Plot Twists

A plot twist works best when a lot of emotional investment is made by the time it happens.

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Nebb

A short fiction. Feedback welcome.

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Gobbledegook

A jumble of nonsense words can be cool. But it would be hell to edit.

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Yasuke, the Black Samurai (2)

The opening passage of the story of the Black Samurai.

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Write Your Own Story

What sense is there to make the effort to write if you know that the novel will give you nothing but trouble ?

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The Hook, Line, and Sinker

The opening of a book is the hook, the line, and the sinker. "The hook" provides the catch, "the line" provides the tension, and "the sinker" provides the direction.

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How to be a Teenage Author

The more you obsess over the age of your debut, the later your debut is going to be. So don't get stuck on the idea of getting published early.

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Analyzing the Opening Line

If there is one part of the novel that is open to analytical dissection, it is the first few sentences.

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