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Don’t Let Fear Hamper You: Dare to Write
For many, writing remains merely a hobby. If you find satisfaction in that, that’s all right. Many people enjoy sewing but don’t make clothes for a living; many people enjoy hiking but don’t become wilderness guides. A beloved pastime need not be turned into a career, and a written story or poem never need be…
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Consider Using Episodic Fiction Plot Structure – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Oct. 21, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Consider Using Episodic Fiction Plot StructureOne powerful way to write a novel is episodically. Called episodic fiction, it breaks from the traditional introduction-rising action-climax story structure by presenting an anthology of brief stories or anecdotes usually about a single character, set of characters, or place. READ MORE Writing Advice: How to Overcome Writer’s…
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Do You Need Extra Services a Print on Demand House Offers?
As you go through the self-publishing process, you might find the array of tasks before you overwhelming – design a book cover, get a photo of yourself, proofread the manuscript, format the text, upload the text, pen a cover blurb, write then send out press releases, etc. etc. etc. – and you’re a writer, not…
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Writing Affirmation: A Real Writer Doesn’t Quit
The moment you write – even if not a published author – you are a writer. The moment you stop, you cease to be one. And by “stop” I don’t mean pause for the day so you can sleep, cook or shower. I mean when you give up on writing, thinking you’ll never master the…
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Web Text Demands Different Kind of Writing Style
Most people read websites by scanning. That is, they don’t read every word but skim over the page, searching for words that are of interest to them. Once they find those words, their reading may slow to include every word, as if they were reading a magazine article or a novel. Indeed, website visitors read…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author P.G. Wodehouse
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. It has…
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How to Write a Press Release for Your Book
If you’re trying to promote your book, you’ll almost certainly want to write a press release. A press release is an article you send to mainstream media (such as newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations), bloggers and website editors to bring attention to some newsworthy event. In your case, that event may be the…
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Consider Using The Journey for a Mythic Plot – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Oct. 14, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Consider Using The Journey for a Mythic PlotOne of the most common plot forms in modern fantasy and science fiction novels is the mythic structure. Often called a quest, in the mythic structure the protagonist undertakes an expedition that carries some moral significance or deeper meaning. Typically our hero seeks some definitive object, which usually…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author James Baldwin
One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. Talent is…
