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A lot of people seem to be curious about writing stories about their own lives, so I figured I’d get into how exactly do that. Now, I’m not an expert in nonfiction, but I do read memoirs regularly and I picked up some memoir-writing craft books before writing this post. The rules of good writing […]
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You might already know that writing well is a skill you can learn, but where should you go to learn that skill? Is a creative writing degree your only option or should you take a novel writing course online instead? Or should you just become a self-taught writer? To be honest, there are no right
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When I started this blog in 2020, I didn’t think I’d end up writing about whether artificial intelligence can write novels or not. And yet, here we are. People who actually understand writing fiction and storytelling aren’t worried about AI. Rather, we’re annoyed, and we can already see Amazon being flooded with computer-written garbage, but
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Historical fiction has a fantastic way of transporting the reader into the past. But how can you as the writer do the same? How can you make your story’s historical setting feel real? When you’re writing historical fiction, you need to balance historical accuracy with a compelling story. No matter how realistic your setting is,
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Generally in fiction, you have two options for tense: present tense (she runs) and past tense (she ran). Along with point of view, your tense is something you need to decide as soon as you start writing and that decision will affect your whole manuscript. But what is the best tense to write a novel
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We talk a lot about writing protagonists here at Protagonist Crafts, but today we need to talk about how to write a good antagonist. An antagonist isn’t necessarily an evil person who does bad stuff “just because”. There should be characters in your story who support your protagonist and who oppose you protagonist, and an
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Point of view is one of the first things you should think of before you start writing your novel. It’s literally impossible to write a story without any point of view, so you need to know what yours is right from the beginning. In this post, you learn what the points of view in fiction
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Many new writers resist the idea of story structure, but when they finally learn about it, they realise it actually solves most of their problems with plotting their stories. I was one of those writers once. While many people have an innate sense of basic novel structure simply because they’ve been exposed to it their
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Summer can be a wonderful chance to write your own summery romance novel. But how do you go about doing that? In this post, I give you some pointers for how to write your dreamy summer romance and I share my best resources for writing love stories that make your readers go squee (or some
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You can’t have stories without conflicts, or more simply put, without problems. Cozy slice-of-life short stories are one thing, but if you’re writing a novel, you need one big problem and then smaller problems along the way. That’s how you make a story. But what are good conflict ideas for stories that you could use
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