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Top 5 Mistakes Novice Authors Make

Kit Carstairs · April 21, 2015 · 5 Comments

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Your road to becoming a published author will be filled with moments of pure excitement, but you’ll also experience moments of utter desperation. The best way to prepare for these ups and downs is to acknowledge the problems and find ways to avoid the most common … [Read more...] about Top 5 Mistakes Novice Authors Make

Filed Under: All About Editing, Book Marketing, Getting Published, Self Publishing Tagged With: authors, don't tell, editing, Grammar, Novice writers, Plot development, publishing, self-publishing, Show, Writers

Want to write great dialogue?

Kit Carstairs · March 20, 2015 · 2 Comments

Writing great dialogue doesn’t seem like it would be difficult, but it is actually one of the biggest hurdles that writers face. Done well, dialogue advances the story and fleshes out the characters while providing a break from straight exposition. The key? Good dialogue is not … [Read more...] about Want to write great dialogue?

Filed Under: Getting Published Tagged With: adjectives, adverbs, characterisation, dialogue, dialogue tags, don't tell, exposition, modifying phrases, narrative, plot, publishing, punctuation, Show, Vocabulary, voice, Writing, Writing dialogue

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