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Using Dream Analysis to Develop Your Fictional Characters

by MKMarketing | Feb 16, 2015 | Best Writer Tips, Guest posts, Writing Prompt, Your highest potential

Have you ever been chased by someone in your dreams? Been naked in public? Flown like a bird around a city? Or just felt utterly lost in a maze-like building? There are twelve basic dream patterns that all of us dream, regardless of who we are, what we do or where we...

Character Outline: Portraying Realistic Teenager Fears

by MKMarketing | Aug 18, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing

7 Techniques for Building (ahem) Conquering Teen Fears – The Back-To-School Edition School is often the mainstay milieu of YA and NA protagonists. Building story tension, we authors can freely add conflict upon conflict, but one emotional stake is shared among...

How to Use an Unreliable Narrator in Your Story

by MKMarketing | Aug 11, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts

The character who is an unreliable narrator can be one of the most powerful tools available to a writer, telling the readers a story that the reader cannot take at face value. In this post, Now Novel, an excellent resource for writers, explains: “The...

Using Dirty Fighting To Escalate Tension In Your Story

by MKMarketing | Sep 2, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts

Great books are filled with conflict, and great characters who learn important lessons. Writer and all-around-funny Jenny Hansen’s clever tips for Dirty Fighting Techniques can be applied to your main character’s friend, family member or a significant other…whoever he...

Critiquing Other People’s Writing: 7 Tips for Making Manuscripts Better

by MKMarketing | Jun 18, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Freelance Writing

“Just shoot me now.” A good critique may begin with this response, but soon the scolding red marks reveal overlooked obstacles to your work’s potential. When you make friends with the red pen pointing out weak story points, redundancy or grammar...
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