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What's New at Novel Writing HelpWelcome to the Novel Writing Site Blog - the place to come to read all the new material (and updated old material) added to the Novel Writing Help Web site. You can easily have these posts delivered directly to you by using the Subscribe to this Site box on the left. Sep 3, 2010, How to Become a Writer - Novel Writing HelpIf you really want to know how to become a writer, I can tell you what to do in a single word: write! Want to go one step further and become a writer who makes a living from doing what they do? Permalink -- click for full blog post "How to Become a Writer - Novel Writing Help" Sep 3, 2010, Books On Writing - Fiction Writing Q & AI'm thinking of buying your Ultimate Guide to Novel Writing. I'm also considering getting a load of books on writing instead. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Books On Writing - Fiction Writing Q & A" Sep 3, 2010, Other Writing Guides - Novel Writing HelpI was in two minds whether to add this section on other creative writing guides. On the one hand, I want to give my visitors as much information as possible on everything to do with writing a novel. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Other Writing Guides - Novel Writing Help" Aug 23, 2010, Expert Novel Writing Help and AdviceIf you believe that novel writing is beyond you, or that it is something only the intellectual elite can succeed in, think again. Everybody has something worthwhile to say and Novel Writing Help can show you how to say it. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Expert Novel Writing Help and Advice" Aug 4, 2010, How to Write Dialogue - Novel Writing HelpYou will find plenty of sound advice in these pages on how to write dialogue for your novel. But one skill you must master is to learn how to write dialogue in which all of the characters sound distinctive. Permalink -- click for full blog post "How to Write Dialogue - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, Descriptive Writing - Novel Writing HelpDescriptive writing is a way of putting words down on paper so that they paint a picture. Novel writing is not a visual medium, but novel writers nevertheless want readers to visualize the stories they tell. Descriptive writing is the way they achieve this. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Descriptive Writing - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, The Elements of Fiction - Novel Writing HelpThis article on the Five Elements of Fiction is simply a checklist of all the ingredients that a passage of narrative writing might contain. Permalink -- click for full blog post "The Elements of Fiction - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, Writing a Narrative - Novel Writing HelpThere are two ways of writing a narrative. One is by showing and the other is by telling. It is how you combine these two methods of narrative writing that will ultimately determine your novel's success. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Writing a Narrative - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, Tips On Writing A Book - Novel Writing HelpCome to think of it, this whole website is filled with tips on writing a book. The kind of novel writing tips I'm talking about here, though, are more practical ones. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Tips On Writing A Book - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, The Cure for Writer's Block - Novel Writing HelpWriter's block can actually afflict any part of novel writing, starting with an inability to come up with a decent idea in the first place. Mostly, though, it is associated with writing a first draft. Is there a cure for writer's block? I believe so, yes. Permalink -- click for full blog post "The Cure for Writer's Block - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, The Exposition of a Story - Novel Writing HelpThe Exposition of a Story or Novel is information which, although not a part of the story you are writing, is nevertheless necessary to explain the events. Permalink -- click for full blog post "The Exposition of a Story - Novel Writing Help" Aug 4, 2010, Foreshadowing In Fiction - Novel Writing HelpForeshadowing is another of those ways of making your fiction rise above the ordinary. A lot of novel writing beginners do not bother with it - they either don't know what it is or don't know how to do it. If you foreshadow in your own fiction, you will make it a lot more professional and a lot more publishable. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Foreshadowing In Fiction - Novel Writing Help" |
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