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Link to: 8 Things I Wish I Knew When I was Writing my First Novel |
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Link to: Margaret Atwood's Top 5 Writing Tips |
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Link to: Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories |
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Link to: Creative Writing advice and tips from Stephen King |
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Link to: David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor |
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Link to: Author David Sedaris discusses his writing process |
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Link to: The Five Haters You Meet When You Become a Writer |
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Link to: Using 'As' Instructions for the proper use of the word 'as.' |
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Link to: Dialogue Tags: Attribution and Action: |
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Link to: Sequencing in your writing |
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Link to: Tom Swifties - Dialog in Fiction |
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Link to: AMythological Mansplaining and Madeline Miller's Circe A review of Madeline Miller's mythologically reimagined novel, Circe. |
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Link to: Mythological Mansplaining and Madeline Miller's Circe |
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Link to: Naming Your Characters: 8 Tips to Help You Mark Crilley is an American comic creator, artist and children's book author and illustrator. In this video, he shares his tips fornaming fictional characters. |
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Link to: George RR Martin on Coming up with Character Names |
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Link to: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window -- and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time. |
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Link to: What the Best Memoirs Have in Common: Tips for Writing Your Story You’ll learn: • The difference between a true memoir and a chronicle of events • What it takes to win readers who don’t already know you • How to bring your story to life in a way that keeps the pages turning • A practical writing exercise to help you on your way |
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Link to: How to write your own story Beth Reekles is an avid writer, reader, and drinker of tea. When she was only 15, she penned her young adult romance novel, The Kissing Booth. She began uploading it to the story-sharing platform, Wattpad, where it accumulated more than 19 million reads. At age 17, while she was still completing her A-Levels in French, Spanish, Maths, and Physics, Beth was offered a 3-book deal from Random House UK. |
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Link to: Use fiction to rewrite your life After her husband committed suicide just three weeks after they were married, author Jessica Lourey thought that grief defined her. But by fictionalizing her life story, she found healing. In this talk, Jessica explores how everyone, not just authors, can use the power of fiction to transform. Best known for her critically-acclaimed Murder-by-Month mysteries, she began writing the series in 2002 to recover from her husband’s suicide. |
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Link to: The Art of Memoir Best-selling memoirist Mary Karr celebrates the paperback release of The Art of Memoir at the Strand, New York's iconic bookstore. |
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Link to: Mary Karr: Prayer, Poetry, and the Catholic Faith For Mary Karr, the road to faith was a long, hard climb for someone who once described herself as an "undiluted agnostic." By her mid-thirties Karr's life had begun to unravel. Her marriage was failing. She drank heavily, wrecked the family car, was hospitalized for an emotional breakdown. In desperation, she took a friend's advice and reluctantly began to pray. She became an unlikely Catholic convert. Her memoir "The Liars' Club," became a bestseller in the 1990s, and she has written a new book entitled "Lit." Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente's conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith. |
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Link to: Mary Karr on Memoir: A Conversation Acclaimed memoirist and professor Mary Karr offers a master class on the literary memoir in her book, THE ART OF MEMOIR. In this longer cut, Mary addresses the triumphs and challenges of the literary memoir genre, part of a "Memoir Tutorial" series for the book. |
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Link to: Writing Memoir With Marion Roach Smith Marion Roach Smith explains the power of memoir and how we can all use it to become better writers. Marion is the author of 'The Memoir Project - a thoroughly non-standardized text for writing and life' as well as a teacher and coach for memoir writers, the author of 3 other books and a freelance writer for mainstream media |
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Link to: Articles: a, an, the. Exercise 2 An exercise in using the articles -- A/An/The -- correctly. Many of the writers I edit have difficulty knowing when to use a general article or the specific article. |
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Link to: Paulette Jiles's News of the World Chosen as Texas' Great Read 2017 The Texas Center for the Book at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission has selected News of the World by Texas author Paulette Jiles as the 2017 Texas’ Great Read. |
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Link to: One City One Book - An afternoon with Paulette Jiles who discusses her book, News of the World, and answers readers’ questions. |
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Link to: Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.(Visit YouTube.com for more Paulette Jiles' videos.) |
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Link to: How to Write Dialogue In this short video, Jerry Jenkins, author of more than 200 books, looks at dialogue writing step-by- step: - How dialogue helps your novel flow - How to format dialogue - The cardinal sin of writing dialogue - And much more |
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Link to: How to Begin Your Memoir Nadine Taylor is a successful author, ghostwriter, and editor with dozens of published credits to her name. In this short video, she looks at two techniques used to begin popular memoirs: 1) starting just before and 2) beginning with a dream. |
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Link to: How to Master Pacing Pacing is not only the speed at which a story moves, but also a technique, which determines the appeal of the story for the audience. It is because a slow-paced work appeals to older audiences, while a fast-paced work appeals to younger audiences. It is not only fiction writers who use this technique, but poets also employ punctuation and formatting to set pace of their poems. Even they use meter and rhyme to affect the pace. Besides, nonfiction writers use it to keep their work fast-paced to avoid dullness, and slow-paced to give more attention to details. |
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Link to: Pacing - How Fast Should a Story Move? Pacing is key for creating a pleasant reading experience for your audience. Macro and Micro are two important types of pacing to balance as you write! |
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Link to: Story Endings Mark Crilley offers 10 writing tips to help you end a story. |