The Rise of Phone Reading
It’s not the e-reader that will be driving future books sales, it’s the phone; how publishers are rethinking books for the small screen.
4 Methods to Invigorate Your Prose With Surprising Sentences
Good storytelling is all about the big pieces: structure, character, theme. But good writing? That’s much more intricate, much more intimate. Good writing is about creating purposeful and interesting prose.
How to Write Dialog That Sounds like Real Speech
Writing realistic dialog is a challenge for fiction writers. Seems like it shouldn’t be. Talking is a natural, daily activity in our lives, something we often do without much forethought. So why is dialog sometimes the hardest thing to construct well in our stories?
Guest post: Want to become a better writer? Stop writing.
Today’s guest post comes from author and writing teacher Barbara Baig, who reveals how the path to productive writing may sometimes be, paradoxically, to put your writing on hold for a while.
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