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Updated May 2023 No matter how interesting or innovative your writing might be, a story without three-dimensional characters can quickly fall flat. There are many techniques you can use to add that extra spark to your characters and give them unique qualities that...
We recently received an interesting question sent by a reader to our general inbox: Dear Writer’s Relief, Is it okay to use the same phrases or lines of mine in different things that I’m writing? Is that legal if the works get published? The Big-Picture Answer:...
Whether or not they mow their own lawns, writers need to be landscapers. The landscapes (aka settings or locales) of books, stories, and poems can be just as important as characters, plot, and prose style in making a creative work bloom. We’ve written in the past...
Writing a true story (a personal essay) is a personal experience—and as such, what matters most is your experience of your writing and your satisfaction with the work you’ve done. We all have an important story to tell. But if you’d like to see your personal essay...
Setting: Enhance your short stories, essays, and novels by using the setting to offset, augment, or reflect the action and mood of your scenes. Works for poetry too!
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