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This week's writing articles are:
Planning A Heart-Stopping Story
by Holly Lisle
You've learned how to use blended scenes, intercuts, and cliffhangers to
work both themes and subthemes into your work. You have great conflict
waiting to happen. What do you do next?
Short
Story Writing - Don't Waste Your Words On Wasted Words!
By Steve Dempster
The short story market often demands tight word counts from the writer.
Here are some tips on how to keep that word count under control!
Create Vivid, Memorable Characters - Breathe Life
into Your Fictional People
By Lucia Zimmitti
If your readers don't care about your characters, you're sunk. Readers
don't necessarily have to like all of your characters, but they have to
care about what happens to your main character, or there's no reason for
them to keep reading.
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