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YOUR BIG LIE OR CHARACTER’S MISBELIEF

We’re doing a hybrid writing tip and podcast this week. All the important stuff is written down here. All the fun stuff and Shaun aka The Talent is in the podcast where we talk about this important writing stuff and other things. So, let’s get started. The big lie or the character’s misbelief in your story is a major key to your character’s story arc, which is basically the emotional change…

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Showing Character's Interior Lives

Write Better Now If you’ve been hanging out with me this past week or so, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been talking about emotional interiority in writing characters for our novels or short stories. You may have repressed it all, that’s okay. I repress everything, too. But in case you want to take a peek at the last few posts, here you go: Making Your Writing Better Showing Your Character’s…

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Elements of Pacing Your Novel

There are a lot of components to pacing in your novel. You can think of it as: The big picture, how fast and slow your whole novel goes. How scenes link together. The scene, how fast and slow the individual scene moves The page, how sentences and white space and even punctuation influence how quickly or slowly the reader moves through the story. This is the pacing of each line. It’s linked to…

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Three Hot Tips To Make Awesome First Pages

Three Hot Tips To Make Awesome First Pages

Hi, welcome to Write Better Now, a podcast of quick, weekly writing tips meant to help you become a better writer. We’re your hosts with NYT bestselling author Carrie Jones and copyeditor extraordinaire Shaun Farrar. Thank you for joining us. Carrie has been talking to a lot of her authors lately about the beginning of their stories and how to make them awesome. And Carrie has a lot of tips for…

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