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How to Write: Day One
Here we are! Day one of HOW TO WRITE. I hope you are ready for this how to write series! I have drafted a very rough sketch of the characters, and where they are going to “play” in this story. I still do not know what is going to happen throughout, but that is okay, as I like to “discover” write some of my stories. It’s fun for me to learn things as I go. If you are more of a plotter, hang in there. I will likely have to stop the story at some point to do some plotting
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First lines of books: Why do they have to matter?
First lines of books fiddleoak / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Most writers know that these days of micro-everything it has become increasingly difficult to get a reader’s attention and keep it. They want the punch line as soon as possible or they are going to move right on past your book. That means you gotta have a brain-stomping great opening. So how is that accomplished? Well, let’s start at the bookstore. What is it about the written word that will make us go into a bookstore, or onto a digital bookstore’s page and open
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