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Emotional Impact Makes the Story Everyone wants to know the secret to great writing. There’s one overriding fact about writing …
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Watch Out For These: 1. Using adverbs in a dialogue tag. If a line contains underlying emotion strong enough, an …
Read MoreWriting That Would Impress Hemingway
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You’ve heard, “Kill your darlings.” Well, I’m here to tell you to “Murder the myth.” Every writer I meet or …
Read MoreTo Illustrate or Not to Illustrate Your Children’s Book?
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Everyone who is writing a children’s book erroneously believe that illustrations must accompany the manuscript. They are wrong. The answer …
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