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"had to return to the library; too many books, too little time. i'll check it out again or buy it. i'm going to read some other books about mercenaries too." — Jul 24, 2015 11:07PM
"had to return to the library; too many books, too little time. i'll check it out again or buy it. i'm going to read some other books about mercenaries too." — Jul 24, 2015 11:07PM
“Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match.
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One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.”
― Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
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One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.”
― Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
“Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This”
― Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
― Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
“We don't like writing. We like having written.”
― GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction
― GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction
“There are no new plots, but there are plenty of fresh new characters with whom you can grab the reader. Characterization is the key to successful commercial fiction. Characterization starts with goal, motivation, and conflict. Character”
― GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict
― GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict
“The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.”
― A Subtle Agency
― A Subtle Agency
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