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Undocumented Immigrants in Children’s Books : PragmaticMom
“As a school librarian, I often see kids get excited when they connect with characters and settings and problems in stories. “She’s just like me!” they’ll say, or, “I know exactly how he felt.” A major...
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7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
“Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, its the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole...
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Clear and Vivid Dialogue
“He said… she said… Shouldn’t it be easy to write clean, clear dialogue between two or more characters? But as writers, we want our dialogue to not only be clear, but also to be lively and vivid. We...
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Making Mistakes in drafts…
“First drafts never come easy. They rarely turn out exactly how you’ve planned them, if you’ve even planned them at all. The other day, fellow pantser and Pub Crawler JJ posted about endings being one...
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Telling Yourself the Story (to the End)…
Have you ever been writing and everything is coming along smoothly until…it isn’t? Some people might call it writer’s block, but I don’t actually think writer’s block is a thing. There are, of course,...
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Book Marketing – 50 tips for marketing a book – The Digital Marketeer
How many ways are there to skin a cat? Loads. If you’re an author wandering lost and lonely in the baffling world of marketing, without the faintest clue about how to go about selling your work, here...
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How Much Money Do Self-Published Authors Make? – Forbes
How Much Money Do Self-Published Authors Make? – Forbes. A recent study looks at incomes compared with traditional and hybrid authors.
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Planning a Series
by Susan Dennard “A few weeks ago, I got this question in my inbox: How would you go about outlining [a trilogy]? Would you outline it as a whole or each book individually? Awesome question! And...
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Plot driven versus character driven? All bullshit. | Hexebart’s Well
Plot driven versus character driven? All bullshit. From the blog of Kim Wilkins From time to time, aspiring writers ask me what is the best kind of story: one that is plot-driven or one that is...
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Unpaid/Royalty-only Writing Markets
“Give me your stories,” they said. “We’ll give you exposure,” they said. What I say is crap on that. Who else works for exposure? Tradespeople don’t. Doctors don’t. Plumbers sure as hell don’t work on...
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