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Write a scene that takes place inside an abandoned factory building. Focus on the beginning when the character first enters the property. Use descriptions of the setting to build tension and give your reader the feeling something bad is about to happen to the hero.
Being a career writer isn’t all about the writing. Doing these five things before you start your first novel will help assure your long term success.
We talked with Tahani Nelson, author of the Faoii Chronicles, to find out what it takes to become a badass self-published woman. Inspiring and brimming with great advice, you don’t want to miss this one.
Create a scene that’s brimming with jargon from a world your reader isn’t likely to be familiar with. Use context clues to help the reader fill in the blanks and engage with the story despite that unfamiliarity.
Create an intriguing tagline by combining an interesting hero with a unique situation. Once you have the hero and inciting incident selected, all you need to do is come up with an intriguing conflict and fill in the blanks.
Fulfilling your calling is always a journey. Find out what it took for Hector Fenwick, author of “We Shall Be One” and “I Love Your Superbia.”
Describe a setting as if it were a character. Approach the description as you would if you were giving your readers some background or physical detail on any other character.
Learn about the importance of try/fail cycles in building compelling stories and find out if your novel has enough of the right kind of tension to engage readers up until the very last page with this must-do writing exercise.
The WRITE Prompt had a chance to speak with Libby Taylor, a published poet, and author of the upcoming poetry chapbook, Ethereality.
The WRITE Prompt had a chance to speak with Anne Lucy-Shanley, self-professed “quirky hermit and cat lady” and author of Meeting the Past.
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