What tools do we need as writers? How are they different from the tools we needed and learned as readers? There is a difference. For example, readers learn that well-rounded characters are interesting, but how do you write a well-rounded character, if you don’t have an innate sense of what a well-rounded character is? Readers […]
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Last week I did a post called “When you promise genre, what do you promise?” More thoughts on the subject here. (Yes, it’s arrogant of me to pick genre apart at this level. No, I really am that analytical, so I will end up doing it anyway, even if it’s idiotic.) The tl:dr is after
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This is one of those “duh” moments that I’m sure other formatters are already doing. But it makes me pretty happy nonetheless. Okay, someone wants a PDF copy of your book for their ereader, and you’re willing to send it to them. How to do that? To size the PDF for an ereader, assume
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The first rule of Writing Club is that a rule that doesn’t suggest how to successfully break itself is a boring rule. No, I lie. That’s the second rule of Writing Club. The first rule is “don’t be boring.” I’ve been playing around with the idea that genre means making certain promises to the reader–setting
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