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The importance of plotting, scene construction, and narration when writing your fantasy novel. You may have read interviews from many authors who state that they place less effort on the plot outline than the actual writing of their novels.
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What is a novel for? What is the point of them? Why do we bother to read them, much less write them? Yes, I know these sound like stupid questions, but the answers really will help you to write better novels.
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If you are a writer of fiction books you need to know what motivates your characters. If you do not understand why your characters behave the way they do, the structure of your novel will be flawed and not believable. Here’s why your characters need motivation.
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City of Torment: Abolethic Sovereignty, Book II by Bruce R. Cordell While the first book in a fantasy series is traditionally used to establish plot and introduce characters, subsequent books often start out just as slowly, with the first several chapters painstakingly recapping previous happenings. Bruce R. Cordell's City of Torment, the second book in
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A Dark Matter by Peter Straub Though billed as something of a supernatural horror novel, A Dark Matter is much more of a psychological book. It’s a subdued novel in the fashion of Rashomon or Lost, using different character perspectives to gradually build a complete picture of events. But it’s also more than just a
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows is the fourth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, and at the time of publication was the most troubled book in the series to write. George R.R. Martin had planned to have a five-year narrative
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Is your writing a joy-filled creative process or a drudgery-filled chore? If you answered a chore, today is the day to change your perspective. Read this article and you’ll see writing your book easily is simply a matter of harvesting your information. You may discover you already possess the majority of the information needed to
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The best way to look at online book marketing is to think about creating relationships. This is an integral part of authoring books of any type and it is not really enough to be simply an expert writer. Marketing of books is all about creating attention to them, to try and convince prospective readers to
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett Unseen Academicals made it into my top ten reads of 2009 so you’ll guess that I enjoyed it. It’s my first adult Pratchett after a several year gap and he hasn’t lost his touch. I probably needed the break to appreciate how good he can be at looking at
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Nearly everyone who wants to be a writer looks at the fiction market as being the way to go – but another, vast market exists. What is it? Let’s find out. The minute you mention that you’re a writer you nearly always get the same reaction. It goes something like this: ‘Do you write crime