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Fiction University: How to Be a Productive, Healthy Writer During

WEBStep 3: Change Your Work Habits Did you know that your Circadian Rhythm plays a huge part in your daily productivity? Simply, you can get more done by working …

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How to Include Mental Health Issues in Our Fiction

WEB3. Always Research Say it again louder for the people in the back—always research. As with so many things, research really is key. One of the most common and …

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Stress and the Writer: To All Things a Season

WEBJana Oliver is an international bestseller and a multi award-winning author who’s chronicled Atlanta’s demon invasion and Victorian London’s meddling time …

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How to Write Scenes (and What Qualifies as a Scene)

WEBThe individual chunks of the novel. 2. The dramatized action of a goal—conflict—result sequence. I’m going to talk about both, but unless specified, when …

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An Easy Tip for Developing Story Ideas

WEBJanice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper …

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4 Ways to Develop Character Agency

WEBAnd they aren’t even enjoying the scenery on the way. Here are four ways to strengthen the character agency in your novel: 1. Ask your protagonist about their hopes …

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Cathartic Writing & Cathartic Reading—An Intersection

WEBData indicate that a mere 30 minutes of immersion into fiction lowers blood pressure, heart rate, and, in an echo of bullet #1, decrease the subjects’ sense of …

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Three Tools For Making Characters Come Alive

WEBJesse, the protagonist in my Dream Wars novellas, for example, just rode onto the page on her motorcycle and started talking. That said, there are a few things I …

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Fiction University: How to Keep Your Short Story Short

WEB2. Reduce the cast. Recruit only as many characters as the story needs. The fewer characters, the easier it is to keep a story short, so don't involve a cast of …

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Fiction University Is Back from Hiatus

WEBFiction University Is Back from Hiatus. By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy. With some changes and updates, and more on the way. Life is a funny thing. I went on …

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How I Stay Grounded: 7 Realities of Traditional Publishing

WEBFor the first time, experience the first three volumes of Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling Witchlands series--Truthwitch, Windwitch, and Bloodwitch- …

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Fiction University: Choose Your Genre, Change Your World

WEBShannon: I primarily write traditional mysteries, maybe could-be western mystery with a smattering of humor, and Hopi and environmental issues, thriller, and an …

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Where Does Your Novel's Conflict Come From

WEBJanice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper …

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Real Life Diagnostics: Opening With the Funny

WEBReal Life Diagnostics is a recurring column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, …

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Here’s the Pitch—It’s a Hit! Crafting Your Novel's Pitch Line

WEBJanice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper …

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Writing to Heal: The Benefits of a Cathartic Novel

WEBIt fulfilled several of the purposes of writing to heal: Clarifying and venting feelings. Telling one’s story – being heard. Creating a different outcome. Finding …

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Just Another Day: Writing the "Slice of Life" Novel

WEBIf the point of the story is to see the character grow, that growth matters. In It's Kind of a Funny Story, the story's focus is on the days leading up to a suicide …

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The Power of Small Problems: Elevate Your Plot with Little Conflicts

WEBThis book will help you: Understand what conflict means and how to use it. Tell the difference between external and internal conflicts. See why conflict isn't a "one …

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Why You Shouldn’t Write Every Day

WEBJanice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper …

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