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10 Common Mistakes Authors Make with Narrative Distance
10 Common Mistakes Authors Make with Narrative Distance What is Narrative Distance? Narrative distance refers to how close or far the narrator is from the reader, influencing how personally the reader experiences the story. There are five levels of narrative distance, ranging from very close (immediate) to very distant (remote). Now that we have the…
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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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4 Types of readers
Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Readers are a big part of our journey just as much as editors. Readers provide the author with insight on what is working and what is not working based on their standpoint and the objective of…
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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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What to consider when writing your life story
Autobiographies, biographies, and memoirs. What do they all have in common? Each genre tells a story of an individual’s life. What is the difference? Memoirs will give a collection of stories in no particular order, while the other two will give a more chronological approach. The difference between autobiographies and biographies, one is written by…
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