Posted on January 9, 2024 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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How to write realistically about drug use in your novel: Pharmacist Miffie Seideman shares professional insight for authors in this excerpt from her book The Grim Reader: A Pharmacist’s Guide to Putting Your Characters in Peril (Jane Friedman).
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Failure in fiction: Sue Coletta explains, among other points, where in the novel a character should fail and how to structure scenes with failure (Writers Helping Writers).
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Why the last lines of your scene are critical: C.S. Lakin discusses the action-reaction cycle that's found in human behavior — and, thus, in fiction — and how the ending of each scene in your novel should capture some part of it (Live Write Thrive).
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The funster: Becca Puglisi defines and describes how to use this comic character type in fiction (Writers Helping Writers).
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