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The Prologue - When to Use One, How to Write One by Marg McAlister
All too often we pick up a published book and read the prologue, then wonder why it was there at all. It doesn't seem to do anything that Chapter One couldn't have done - or that couldn't have been worked in during the story itself. Or the prologue is a scene taken directly from the book - a few paragraphs inserted only to make us keep reading.Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29
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WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle - New York Times
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules. Still, you might look them over.
Writing is too important to be left until the night before it's due, but a few facts about the psychology of procrastination can help us overcome this tendency. Most of us procrastinate about writing because we associate it with negative comments and red ink. We don't want to risk real failure, so we sabotage ourselves just a little, leaving us with a perfect insurance policy:
A Few Thoughts on The Writing Process
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Types of Novels . Thrillers, science fiction, romance, contemporary realism... there's a heaping buffet table of options for your novel.
How to Write a Novel - Novel Writing Tips
How to Write a Story – How to Write Fiction
For a complete course on how to write fiction , visit the creative writing courses page. Or, if you just want to brush up on a particular aspect of fiction-writing, browse the Contents list below.
Questionnaires for Writing Character Profiles - Creative Writing Help
What was his/her dream growing up? Did he/she achieve this dream?