Crafting a Grief Memoir: How Writing About Death Saved My Life
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How author and book editor Chris Noel survived the death of his fiancee by writing a grief memoir.
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What's in a Name? More Than You'd Think
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The challenge of coming up with realistic, unique names for your characters, businesses, and places when writing fiction.
Read MoreVariety Is the Spice of Prose
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To improve your prose, take note of unnecessary and distracting repetitions of words and phrases. We explain in this post.
Read MoreWhy Turn the Page? What Ocean Layers Teach Us About Storytelling
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This post explores how storytelling operates on successive strata, and it uses ocean layers as metaphors for aspects of narrative: language, characters, plot, imagery, and "the world of the book."
Read MoreThe 4 Stages of the Editorial Process for Independent Authors
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You're going to get your book edited - but what does that mean, and when do you do it? We go over each stage.
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