fiction
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Avoid These Bad Habits In Your Writing
The top copy editor at Random House has a book out about what you should and shouldn’t do in your writing, and people are already arguing about it. All writing advice is relative, because language is not physics, it’s something people made up. That doesn’t mean writing advice is useless, so if you like to…
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Start A Short Story Club Instead Of A Book Club
During my first year at uni, my friend started a book club. We picked Ulysses. We met up once and I’ve still never read Ulysses. Book clubs are hard! They’re so hard that blogs list things to talk about when no one in the book club read the book. (“Read reviews of the book out…
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The Best Sites To Visit After You Finish Any Book, Movie, Game Or TV Show
I watched Westworld months after it aired, and I felt lonely; no one still wanted to talk about it. Half the fun of a good work of entertainment – a TV show, a movie, a book, even a podcast or video game – is talking about it, studying it, learning more about it. Any good…
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Where To Get Free Inspiration For Your Novel
Photo by Karen Roe. How’s NaNoWriMo going? Do you have 20 per cent of a novel on your hard drive yet? If not, maybe you’re having trouble thinking of what to write. Fortunately, there’s a place on nanowrimo.org that is full of ideas ripe for the stealing.