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How to Write a Clean First Draft
I had to open my big mouth, didn’t I? A few weeks back, in the response to a comment on one of my posts here at IU, I remarked that I save a lot of time in the editing phase by writing “really clean...
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Storyboarding for Novelists
Storyboarding is a plotting technique used by screenwriters, but it’s also popular with some novelists. I like it since I’m a planner, not a pantser. Storyboarding is not a rigid plotting device. The...
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Story Structure: All a Novelist Needs to Know
The structure of every story follows the pattern of the average human emotional experience. That pattern is the same, whether it’s a first kiss, eating a chocolate bar, having sex, or reading a...
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Use a “Fat Outline” for Powerful Writing
Click to enlarge image. Okay, everybody knows about outlines. I used the letters-and-numbers version above. Bureaucracies, of course, like the specificity of decimals, “Please refer to section...
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