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"You Have the Right to Write!" "Speak Your Mind!" "Leave Your Legacy!"

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Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock

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We Love You Leonard Nimoy!

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Entrepreneurs! Small and Large Business Owners! Managers! Corporate Execs! Division Heads! Idea People! #bizadvisors #bizconsultants

Here is a Biz Book You all….Need…to Read!

Written Out of Love…Not Greed!

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Read This BIZ BOOK to Succeed!

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Stu Leventhal’s poetry communicates! This poet touches things deep inside!

To read more poetry and lyrics by the finest new American Poet Stu Leventhal go here: http://anewtale.com/poem.html

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Stu Leventhal is a poet of complex personality and showmanship!

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Not Your Grandma’s Poem Book!

Stu Leventhal Poems are Witty, Lyrical and FUN!

Come Take a Journey! Enjoy a Magical Voyage! Escape from the Stress, the Routine, the Boredom!

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Poetry on Steroids!

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Finally Writing Encouragement by a Writer, Author, News Reporter, Poet, Song Lyricist, Food Critic…You name the genre and Writing Mentor Stu Leventhal has written in it…successfully!

Sci-fi, Cowboy Westerns, Mysteries, Inspirational Tales, Plays, Musicals, Business Books, Poetry Collections, Local Sports News, Human Interest Stories, Restaurant Reviews, Horror Tales… There is no better author, writing coach or poet to write this creative writing advise tutorial than author and long time Writing Mentor Stu Leventhal!

Learn more about Stu Leventhal’s writing philosophies and sample his creative writings here: http://www.anewtale.com

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How to Critique Someone Else's Writing

It isn’t always easy to critique someone else’s work. Particularly if you know that person, if they’re a friend or a family member.

So how do you go about giving someone a critique?

Be honest: Telling someone their work is excellent and completely flawless won’t help them improve. It’s always nice to be nice, but when you’re critiquing, nice doesn’t help anyone.

But don’t be mean: On the other hand, telling someone their work is rubbish doesn’t help them either (and may lose you a friend).

Remember: there is a difference between critiquing and being critical.

Tell them what you like, and most importantly, tell them why you like it.

Tell them what you don’t like, and once again, tell them why you don’t like it.

You can make suggestions for how they could improve it, but always bear in mind that this is their story, not yours. Don’t rewrite it for them, and don’t be offended if they ignore your advice.

Remember that everyone has their own opinion, and everyone likes different things. Just because you dislike something, it doesn’t mean everyone will. Keep this in mind while critiquing, and it will help to make your critique constructive.

Try to balance the good and the bad feedback. This will ensure you can give honest and helpful feedback without ruining a friendship.

Read other people’s critques. You can learn so much about critiquing by reading other people’s feedback.

Critque outside of your genre. The writer will learn a lot from feedback from someone not totally familiar from their genre, and you can learn a lot from seeing how other genres are constructed.

Pay it forward by critiquing someone else’s work, and they’re likely to repay the favour when you need some feedback.

Good critique partners are hard to find, and are worth their weight in gold. It may take some time for you to find good critique partners, but when you do, hold on to them with both hands.

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Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

P D James (via writingbox)

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Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don’t know what you have until you’ve finished it. You don’t know how to fix it until it’s all down on the page.

Lauren Beukes

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So You Want To Get Published.

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More here: http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/what-age-did-well-known-authors-publish-their-most-famous-works

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This is so interesting! I want to look at it forever.

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SHONDA RHIMES ‘A screenwriter’s advice’

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What To Do When You Can't Settle On A Story Idea

There’s writer’s block, and then there’s writer’s overload. Sometimes being flooded with ideas can be just as bad as having none, and it definitely stops many writers from working and fulfilling their creative impulses. If you can’t settle on an idea, you’re only four steps and a half an hour away from writing your story.

1. Pick three concepts for your story.

Narrow your thoughts down to three story ideas. If you’re a varied writer, your three stories can each be of a different genre. When I’m planning submissions or comic scripts, sometimes I’ll figure out the basic ideas for a scifi story, a fantasy, and a realist story before I figure out what I want and get to work. If you already have a specific genre you’re inspired for, you can think up three story directions for the same overreaching concept.

2. Spend five minutes thinking about each one.

Imagine the characters and concept for each, and take fifteen minutes and develop their stories a little. Imagine the characters and concept for each, and familiarize yourself with the tone. Confining this step to five minutes will keep you from spiraling into another few hours of story concept hell, but should still give you enough time to consider your stories before you move onto the next step: writing.

3. Start writing all three.

Pick a story at random and write an establishing scene, describing the setting. Spend five minutes or so (set a timer!) writing for each concept. Describe the setting or the central theme, or anything that can pull you in. The already fleshed the idea out in the previous step, now you’re going to find out if you care or not. To really test your devotion to an idea, start writing on one of the smallest details of it that would still be necessary to the story telling.

4. Abandon the stories.

If the last exercise gave you a clear winner, start working on it. If you’re still unsure, take out a die or pull up an automatic die online. Assign each story a number 1-3, and promise yourself you’ll write the story that you roll and you’ll abandon the other two until that project is on its feet.

This process is more to test your mind than it is to punish you - leaving a choice like this up to chance will force your subconcious to tell you which you’re most invested in. If you’re disappointed over “losing” one of the stories more than the rest, then that’s the story you’re going to write.

Do you ever get stuck on a dozen story ideas? How do you get yourself out of that funk?

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On learning from writing tips

No blog or book will have a complete and error-free guide to writing perfect books. I’m sure I’ve written some really unhelpful tips, and so has every single other blog like mine. When reading writing tips, think about each one and see if you agree with it.

If several writing tip books and blogs say the same thing, it’s more likely to be true. 

Writing tips from actual, published authors are generally more valuable than writing tips from blogs like this one. 

If your story calls for an exception, then by all means break the writing rule. No rule is completely unbreakable. Writing “rules” are more like guidelines, some stronger than others. 

At the same time, if your story doesn’t call for an exception, the guidelines are there to help, not to pen you in and cramp your style. Writing a story with flat characters and bad grammar just because you’re a rule breaker and not for any specific in-story purpose isn’t going to go over well with readers.

It’s better to look at writing tips than not to. If you want to see what just writing with one’s heart and hoping for the best does, check out the average story on fanfiction.net. You technically can write a good story this way, but it’s pure chance. Writing is a skill and there are specific ways to do it better. 

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In that spirit, and with assorted gift-giving holidays coming fast down the pike, we’ve rounded up a list of Rioter-approved books that make great gifts (even if you’ve waited until the last second). Broadly appealing, super-cool, and just plain good, these books should make just about any giftee on your list quite happy.

So if you need a last-minute gift, or if you’re stuck on what to give a tricky relative or co-worker, start here.

We bet you’ll find something perfect.

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The dos and donts of adding more description

ADD MORE DESCRIPTION TO:

Things most of your audience will never experience

The small details that help make large emotions

The biology and culture of aliens and magical creatures (though this might just be my personal taste, I have seen it asked about extensively in every author Q and A involving an author that writes about aliens or fantasy creatures.)

The tiny gestures that make relationships what they are. This is not limited to romantic relationships

Events that you want your readers to perceive as taking a long time

DO NOT ADD MORE DESCRIPTION TO:

The setting (unless you forgot to put a decent one there in the first place. Most authors err in the direction of too much description, though, so it’s better to not add words if you don’t have to.)

The exact nuances of every character’s eyeballs

Concepts that most readers will already know about. There’s no reason to describe what a plague is or how to play Scrabble

Drawn-out negative emotions. Though realistic, they can be tiresome to read about

Things that happen within seconds of each other — the extra words feel like extra time