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Short Story Writing: 4 High Impact Tips

by MKMarketing | May 15, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts, Short stories

Successful short fiction makes a big impact in as few words as possible. Every choice you make as an author needs to be deliberate, every character needs to act with purpose, and every word must pack a punch. When less is definitely more, focusing on certain details...

The Writer’s 3 Step Practice for Improved Health and Creativity

by MKMarketing | May 8, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Your highest potential

If you’re a writer, chances are you spend hours crouched before your computer’s screen. It’s a potentially sedentary lifestyle, writing, but there are simple steps we writers can take to boost our health, creativity and sense of well-being. If we...

13 Tips for Writing a Dan Brown Page Turner

by MKMarketing | Apr 30, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts

Every time Dan Brown publishes a book, it quickly becomes the best-selling book of the year. In fact, Brown’s 2013 release of Inferno earned sales toppling both J.K. Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling,  and Veronica Roth’s enormously popular...

Blake Snyder’s Beat Sheet for Novels

by MKMarketing | Apr 2, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing

Like me, you’ve probably toyed with some tried-and-true novel structures. I always end up bending them to my own will–trying to make things work in a way that’s convenient to me. I’ve kept my eye open for a foolproof recipe, because a...

Write your book title in 10 minutes

by MKMarketing | Jan 27, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing

There is a deep satisfaction in stories that “write” their own title, the perfect title, revealing itself without effort. It’s a magical occurrence, happening just enough to keep the writer a believer in miracles, but infrequently enough to aggravate...
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