Book Building: The Sandwich Method
Ideas are flooding your head, grasping for your attention during every waking moment and demanding to be written. It’s good that you decided to START your book off on the right foot, but now it’s time to write and you’re stumped. This isn’t regular ole writers block either. This is the fundamental challenge of how […]
Review of War Horse
Caution: Spoilers! Think War Horse is another silly animal movie? Wrong. Panning shots of the English countryside set the backdrop for a colt’s birth and eases viewers into the vast world that surrounds us all as we are welcomed into life. Young Albert Narracott and his equine counterpart, Joey, train each other in the disciplines […]
Writing Tips: Structure
Before you write, you have a few structural things to consider. How will you present your story: Will it be linear or non-linear? Will there be flashbacks or time-skips into the future? Will the climax come in the thick of the plot or towards the end? Whose point of view will the story be told […]
Writing Tips: The Dirty Dozen
Any writer worth their salt (hey, there’s one!) will instantly recognize this list as the dirtiest collection of overused phrases and concepts known as a clichés. Without a doubt, clichés emerge in all genres and styles of writing by accident, an unfortunate happenstance of the written word sometimes offers no other turn of phrase. I […]
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