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07.11
3:34
Research is important in all types of writing — even when you’re making up stories. Why can’t you just make up facts? Simply put, you want your works of fiction to be as believable as possible and one of the ways to make that happen is to pepper it with real-world information.
20
05.11
10:54
Writing dialogue for the characters in your story? Good dialogue is as much about what you include as what you leave out. Here are three things you should avoid whenever possible:
10
05.11
4:46
Immediacy is a characteristic of good fiction that keeps people immersed in a story. It achieves that by making readers feel as if they’re directly experiencing the events they are reading as if it were happening at this very instant.
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01.10
3:48
When you’re writing fiction, make sure your characters are worth the readers’ time. If they were real people, would you enjoy the eight hours it will take getting to know them? Or would they bore you early on?