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Why Writing to Market Won’t Serve You Anymore

/ Creativity, Research, Voice / 6 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

Writing to Market isn’t quite as divisive as Wide versus KU, but it comes close. Mention Writing to Market to a group of indie authors, and you’ll witness a heated debate spring to life almost immediately.  Sometimes full-blown arguments can break out. For the record, I’ve never written to market.  Not because I’ve ignored the […]

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An Instant, Easy Fix To Make Your Fiction More Unputdownable

/ Narrative Techniques, Point of View, Voice, WRITING GENRE FICTION / 5 minutes of reading

I’ve edited a lot of fiction. Read a lot of it, too. I can nearly always spot the newer writers, because their control of point-of-view slips frequently. They drop into the dreaded telling, instead of showing, often without realizing it. And their narrative voice sometimes doesn’t match the character’s voice. There’s usually more evidence: Setting

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