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  Cracking NaNoWriMo
  Tips to successfully complete the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
  by premrao / on Oct 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “novel writing”

 

• Write Your Novel – Chasing Silence

  
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  There is one thing that is absolutelyessential for writing, especially for writing something as arduousand complex as a novel, and that is silence. I dont mean actual silence, I mean mental silence. A quiet space in which your imagination canbreathe. I mean the focus that comes when your gaze is turnedthoroughly ...
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• You cant fail, unless you do this. (Last in a series of ten)

  
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  This is the tenth and final post in a series of ideas about creative success. The good news is that theres only one way to fail: 10: THE ONLY WAY TO  FAIL Youcan fail only if you stop. If on the last day of your life you still aren’t onthe N. Y. Times best-seller list or your blog has only 99 passionate ...
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• Chip MacGregor: Message Fiction vs. Values Fiction

  
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  Today we hear from my agent, Chip MacGregor.  Someone sent me this question: “I’m a writer who hasn’t been able to find success in the traditional CBA markets. I was told my book is ‘too message oriented for most Christian publishers.’ One house told me they want ‘values fiction, not message fiction.’ ...
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• “Devil’s Revenge”, Chapter 13

  
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  At the end of 2006, I started another book, from a book. I had almost finished my first novel, “Heart Of The Maze”, and made a cardinal mistake: I didn’t want to kill off my favorite characters, so I continued the story but with a twist: the characters were now demons and devils. The author, Bess, (new to this ...
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• Mary Grehan’s Top Five Writing Tips

  
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  Mary Grehan is an Irish author whose debut novel,  Love is the Easy Bit , has  recently been released. You  can read our review of it  here . Marys top tips for writing are... 1. You don’t have to repeat yourself. Repeating yourself isnagging and the reader does not want to be nagged. The astute reader ...
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• Creating Characters: Compassion and Conflict

  
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  I was quite taken with this post from Sandra Pawula on compassion when I read it last weekend. (Im actually quite often taken with admiration for Sandras posts.  If you havent discovered her blog, go read it now.) In the post, Sandra writes about how compassion is linked to boundless, deep love and then, and ...
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• Four ways to Make Interesting Characters

  
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  Boring Characters Photo by MoonSoliel George was tall and thin, with light brown hair.  He wore a white shirt and denim jeans, new and unwrinkled.  He was going bald but still had strings of hair on his head.  As he spoke, he held a cigarette, heedless of the ashes he spread over my rug. ...
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• Write Your Novel – The Three Act Structure

  
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  Whatever I may have said about writingadvice being a choose what suits you buffet, Ido think theres one thing a novel has to have – structure. I dont care if your structure is basedon a spiderweb or a patchwork quilt, the heros quest or the coloursof the rainbow, it just has to have one. The most commonly used ...
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• Write 1/Sub 1 check in: week 23 the one with hot goblin action

  
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  Week 23! A fun week with  The Southeast Review’s 30-Day Writer’s Regimen . No doubt all the other writers are crafting prose that illuminates the human condition. I, on the other hand, write a story that involves hot goblin action. Really. That being said, I don’t necessarily mean action of the ...
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• Tear Down the Writing Wall. 6 Tips to Help You Finish Your Novel

  
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   It’s one problem to start a book, but quite another to finish it! Many writers struggle with completing a project, but once you do that, you know you can do it again. I’ve written before about some ways to get the first draft out of your head . Today, Alythia Brown shares her tips. You’re a ...
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• “The Hanging Gardener” Now Available

  
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  My historical horror story “The Hanging Gardener” is now available in the new issue of Plasma Frequency magazine. It’s a blend of my interest in H. P. Lovecraft and ancient history, and was originally written during a spree of short stories during National Novel Writing Month. (Read more about the piece here ...
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• Writing the Fiction Series: The Complete Guide For Novels and Novellas by Karen S. Wiesner (Review and Giveaway)

  
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  I m so glad that I have the chance to review Karen Wiesners new writing guide book, Writing the Fiction Series: The Complete Guide For Novels and Novellas , because I am currently writing book one of a middle-grade mystery series. As Karen says in her introduction, "A better question might be who isnt reading, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2013 DANA AWARDS – Ficiton, Poetry, Novels

  
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  POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2013 3 AWARDS: $1,000 each for Novel, Short Fiction,  Poetry // $3,000 in awards RESULTS LETTERS by MAY 1, 2014 (to your email address or via SASE)  WEBSITE:     www.danaawards.com  E-MAIL:     danaawards@gmail.com   for questions only. NO E-MAIL OR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS.  ...
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• Strings of Retaliation – 20b – Opening

  
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  << Previous Gabriel had made it very clear that he expected to see me today and, as much as I wanted to check on Saskia instead, it wouldn’t be a smart move. First, I needed Gabriel on my side. Second, I had to wait for Djeb’s green light before I went anywhere near Saskia’s hideout; […]
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• My Writing Room – Lucy Diamond

  
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  This week Lucy Diamond shows us around her office. Her  latest novel ,  Me and Mr Jones , is released on Thursday. I have had many writing spaces over the years: a tinyfolding table in our basement Brixton flat; up in the attic of our Brightonhouse (accessed only by a pull-down ladder, i.e. total health ...
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• Write Your Novel – A Word On Advice

  
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  Without wishing to get outrageouslyself-referential, Id like to have a word (okay, severalwords) about writing advice. Despite writing to you every week withnuggets of writerly  wisdom, I think its important to say that Imnot offering a set of rules or instructions. In fact, if anyone doesclaim that their ...
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• “Devil’s Revenge”, Chapter 3

  
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  I had no intention of every revisiting this book but since I have, it has an energy to it that still surprises me. It was only my second novel, and it got lost in the excitement of writing other books and of course, poetry. But it has a certain charm (at least to me…) and also has some inventive characters who will ...
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• Fantasy Fiction Novel 23 Chapters – Freelance Writing Job

  
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  I have tried to write this story but just have a lot of trouble with getting it done. I need someone who can create pictures with words and have a good sense for story structure and writing. We… Go to Source
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• How to make a scene in your book or screenplay come alive (Prof. Chekhov)

  
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  Im sure youve heard the writing advice, "Show, dont tell." It applies equally to prose and to screenwriting, but how do you do it, exactly? One of my favorite authors, Anton Chekhov, provides an oustanding example in the first paragraph of his short story, The Cooks Wedding : GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of ...
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• How to Describe a Character’s Home

  
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  A character’s home provides the opportunity to tell us a lot about him/her without narrative. People decorate their homes in ways that make them comfortable with life. Corny though it may be, a home is your character’s castle. The interior might relax him, motivate, be his hide-out from humanity and the threats ...
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