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6 Ways You Overwhelm Your Readers
Honing the craft of writing is more than grammar and punctuation. It’s creating a connection between the story and the reader. Whether it’s through similar experience, a beautiful new world, characters, but despite best efforts something always seems to occur. Authors overwhelming their readers. This of course happens based on the assumption: if I give…
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You Don’t Have to Stick to Your Outline
There is a huge misconception when it comes to outlining and that a writer has to stick to the outline. As a planster, I highly encourage outlining while at the same time saying stray away from the outline if your creativity takes you into a new direction. Nothing is wrong with going with ideas that…
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How to Become a Better Writer using these 5 Tips
If you aspire to be a blogger, poet, novelist, et cetera, I think it’s important for you to know there is more than one way to become a better writer. For starters, read as much as you can. You need to be a reader to see how sometimes your story may or may not fit.…
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How I Went From 2,000 words to 50,000 words in 3 months
Getting started may not be the pain point but actually writing the story is. In the article I will tell you how I went from 2,000 words to 50,000 words in a matter of 3 months.
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How to Write BIPOC Characters
We need more BIPOC characters! I want to go over how you can be inclusive with your BIPOC characters while not overstepping the boundaries of the BIPOC community. Yes, the reading community calls for more stories with Black and Brown people. We want more of us in fiction stories! However, since there are experiences only…
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How to Avoid Being Canceled When You Have Diverse Characters
Respectfully implementing culture in a story is both easy and difficult but it can be done right without the fear of getting canceled. As a Black woman, I am very familiar with the misrepresentation that occurs when it comes to describing people who look like me. Rather than allowing myself to be upset, my goal…
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3 Ways to Outline a Novel
Are you a plotter, pantser or plantser? For reference: A pantser creates the story freely without a plan or an outline, a plotter will do the opposite by outlining their story for structure and organization. And a planster is both, plots and still allows for creativity to take over if the outline no longer fits.…
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