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Using real life in your fiction
Real life experiences can provide some ready-made material for fiction, but there are both pros and cons to writing what you know.
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Describing your characters
Description is one element of a story where it is easier to lose the interest of your reader than to capture it. In most writing styles, description is scaffolding that you want to rest the action of your story on, rather than displaying it for its own sake.
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Describing actions and behaviour
Used properly, describing the actions and behaviour of your characters can be a useful tool to break up elements that could otherwise overshadow your scenes. Or it could flatten your writing and have your readers skipping huge chunks of your story.
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Writing a Book That Makes a Difference by Philip Gerard - Review
Creating a multi-dimensional character
Plot versus
character
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Creating conflict in your story
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