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For somebody good with people she could be a real estate agent, a marketing executive, a publicist, a news anchor, a school principle, an interior decorator, a headhunter, a funeral ...

What kind of school library? I have trouble believing that any high school would have an old/rare book collection. In university, for sure. He could be an English or History ...

When I think about describing a scene, I find that it feels more real if you involve all five senses. Instead of just thinking about what it looks like, think ...

You could try using a line like "when he came to live with them.." or "whoever took him into their home...". If you just want readers to know that these ...

My advice for using a double-POV in first person: seperate the sections of the POVs by chapter. That way readers are clear who is narrating. If you change POV in ...

I do the same thing as Rosey Unicorn. I have a section in my documents dedicated to my writing and every time I have a new idea, I open a ...

Oh, haha! So basically not at all what I was talking about...sorry!

I think character names are supremely important because they automatically give you an idea of who the character is. Such as, when I hear the name Krystal, I automatically picture ...

These are my techniques for staying devoted to one project at a time: 1) Start off by writing out an outline for the story. I do this by writing down ...

If you're talking about story structure, the way I do it is to form a plot outline. Open a new document and write down the contents off each chapter all ...

I think I'm in a bit of a vampire hangover, hahaha! I have to say that, as a reader, I'm a little tired of reading about vampires. But that doesn't ...

I find the magazine Writer's Digest both helpful and interesting. It includes articles on the elements of writing, as well as lots of great information on the business and interviews ...

I have a major case of writer's block. I'm supposed to be using this summer to finish up my novel but...I'm getting nowhere. I have a good, solid outline and ...