Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Short Stories

Hey everyone! Since I'm currently taking a college course about short stories, I figured that I would write a quick post about how to write short stories.  In some aspects, they're much harder to write than novels because you have to write an entire, purposeful, event in under 10,000 words.…
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Writing A Novel: Conclusions

Hey everyone!  Long time no see!  As promised in the last post, " Body Building ", I have compiled a quick guide to writing a conclusion for your story; this is also the finale of the "Writing A Novel" blog-series.  Stay tuned for more posts, however!  Okay - let's get down to…
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Writing A Novel: Body Building

Hello everyone!  I'm back with the next installment of "Writing A Novel".  Writers are bodybuilders, you know that?  Yes, I suppose you could be extremely interested in the physical bodybuilding process and be a writer too, but I'm thinking about building the body of your novel.  …
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Writing A Novel: First Chapters

Hey everyone!  Wow, has it been a long time since I've posted!  Ugh.  Before I jump into the anatomy of a first chapter -- as promised in the last post for Writing A Novel: "Casting Call" -- I'll tell you why I have been absent.  1) My computer crashed.  The hard drive broke, and…
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Writing A Novel: Meet the Cast

Hey, all!  This is the next installment after  Plotting It Out .  Today, we're going to talk about how to figure out your characters and how many you  need in a book. So--how many characters do you need?  More than you may think! Take a look at some of the well-known books: Harry Potter, The Maz…
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Writing a Novel: Plotting It Out

Hey everyone!  This is the next installment that goes with Writing a Novel: Finding Your Topic .  Please click that title in order to find the previous post. So you've got your topic figured out and you're very passionate about it.  Awesome - you can't wait until you can start writing i…
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Introducing My First Book!

Hello! On top of everything else that was going on this weekend (I won't go into detail because that would take all day), I managed to get my first book published for the universe to see (or, at least those within the Amazon.com range). Introducing: "Welcome Home", book one of the Fai…
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Monday, July 4, 2016

Happy 4th of July!

Hello, all! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Independence Day!  I'll be posting another how-to for writing again soon, I hope.  I also plan on putting up an update (or, rather, the first post about it, I guess) the book I'm on a fast-track-train-wreck-course headed for self-publishi…
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Writing a Novel: Finding Your Topic

Hello all! Today I'm going to write about the first step you'll take when you begin writing a novel.  Actually, this doesn't apply merely to novels -- you could be writing a short story, a poem, anything .  One of the most important things you'll do?  Finding the topic you want to w…
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Welcome!

Hello, all!  I'm just dropping by to leave a quick note explaining what I intend this blog to be about.  We'll be going over English/grammar/sentence structure, as well as tips for writing books.  On top of this, I will be, hopefully, documenting my journey through writing and self-publishi…
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