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Hook ‘em, So You Can Reel ‘em In
How will you begin your next story? The beginning, called the ‘hook,’ is important. These days readers don’t have much time. Other things like TV, video games, and the Internet compete with your...
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Better Writing through Chemistry?
If you consume alcohol or mind-altering drugs, will that improve your writing? Many people think so. Supposing it’s true, it’s nice to have that short-cut to greatness available, isn’t it? Why...
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Best-Seller Foreteller?
What if a soothsayer could tell you if your manuscript would become a best-seller? If you were a publisher, you’d hire that soothsayer, right? Throughout the history of the publishing industry, editors...
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Is Life Too Short for Re-Reading?
Do you read the same book multiple times? If so, why, and what does that say about you? With Dr. Carl Sagan’s help, I’ve made the point before that the human lifespan is too short to read all books...
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Author Suicides
Writers, it’s difficult, but we have to talk about this. The recent celebrity suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade have raised awareness of the general suicide problem. However, writers may be...
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Can You Skip the Suffering Part?
Many great writers suffered early in life and during their writing careers. Of these, a good number wrote from a place of suffering, capturing that pain and creating timeless novels. Did their...
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How Readable is Your Story?
If you’d like your fiction to sell well, wouldn’t it be beneficial if readers found your stories easy to read? Not all writers see it that way. Some authors of the world’s great classic literature made...
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You’ll Never Get Rejected
Interesting fact—over the years, I’ve submitted stories 441 times, and in all of the responses to all of those submissions, I’ve never been rejected. Hard to believe? Consider this—no matter how many...
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