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General Writing Articles
Active Voice, Passive Voice, and Stative Sentences
Adjectives
Controlling the Rhythm of Your Writing
Avoiding Exposition Pitfalls
Exposition in Fiction
Characterising in Terms of Relationships
Creating a Multi-Dimensional Character
Creating Derivative Works From Another Author’s Writing
Don’t Do This
Exercises for Writers and Other Desk Slaves
For Drama’s Sake, Don’t Write Horror
Naming Your Characters
Plot Versus Character
Plotting Your Story – Structure
Point of View
Showing and Telling
Story Length Guidelines and Terminology
The Top Ten Mistakes Writers Make
The 36 Dramatic Situations (Plus One)
Unblock by Exercising Your Observation Skills
Unblock by Writing Flash Fiction
Working with Tenses
Writing a Synopsis
Editor’s Pencil
Bending Grammar Rules in Fiction
Grammar and Punctuation
The Comma According to Trask
The Ten Most Frustrating Grammar Rules
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Setting
Mapping a Fictional Location