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NaNoWriMo: Time and Relative Stage Business in Space
(I know, TARSBIS doesn’t really roll off the tongue, does it?) If you aren’t familiar with the long-running BBC sci-fi […]
NaNoWriMo: The Character Question(s)
We’ve talked about your protagonist and antagonist, and your story’s point of view, which includes a narrator who might be […]
NaNoWriMo: Narrative Point of View (POV)
So you have your characters, your conflict, and your resolution. You have a rough outline of how your story is […]
NaNoWriMo: What Your Story Has, and What’s Missing
Last week we looked at what a novel needs, which is character, plot, and resolution. So how do you figure […]
NaNoWriMo: What a Novel Needs
It’s the end of November, which means lots of people have been taking the National Novel Writing Month challenge. Familiarly […]
The Importance of Proofreading
Okay, yes, typos can be silly. We’ve all been there: in a rush, trying to dash off one more email […]
Cleaning Out the Jargon
If you’re writing for industry, you can find yourself using specialized terms which generally mean something only to people familiar […]
Adjective Order, or the Great Dragon Conundrum
In Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase, he states that in English, […]
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