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by Word Alive Press
Let me open today’s post with an example from my own experience. About a year ago, I sat down to critique a novel. In the opening scene, the stor...
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by Word Alive Press
So you’ve written a book. You’ve typed the last word. You feel a surge of pride and accomplishment. Among all the other things you’ve done in your ...
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by Word Alive Press
A reader of the blog recently asked some important questions about writing that I’m sure a lot of other writers share. I know that similar concer...
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by Word Alive Press
Have you ever heard the expression “jump the shark”? It’s a term from television, stemming from the moment when the show Happy Days passed its p...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the toughest areas of novel writing to master is the dialogue. I have read many novels that have perfectly sculpted prose swirling across th...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most basic and important skills in writing fiction—and also in non-fiction, though to a slightly lesser degree—is mastering the use of...
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by Word Alive Press
When you read the Bible, do you ever imagine the characters’ lives beyond the page? What did Sarai give up when she left Ur of the Chaldees? Why ...
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by Word Alive Press
As an editor, one of the things I find authors struggle with the most is point of view. It seems to me that a lot of people sit down to write hav...
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by Word Alive Press
I have a small scar on the right side of my face, above my lip. It’s fairly visible in summer when I’m tanned, but in winter it almost entirely d...
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