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by Word Alive Press
As we mentioned earlier, this month our goal is to help you get into the writing groove, with a writing prompt every Friday to help generate idea...
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by Word Alive Press
It is a sad fact of life that few things play out in real life like they do on paper. The summer of 2014 was like that for me. In the spring, it ...
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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
When I was 10 years old, I started writing my first “novel”. It was a fantasy novel about my teddy bear and her sidekick, a large purple dragon, ...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most common writer’s tips out there is to “Read, read, read, and write, write, write”. If you’re a writer, the reasons to read are cou...
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by Word Alive Press
Being an avid bookworm, I worked for a nation-wide bookstore chain while I was finishing up my English degree. With my current position at Word A...
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by Word Alive Press
A good deal of thought has gone into writing this blog. It is, quite possibly, easier to write spontaneously from the heart than to compose a des...
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by Word Alive Press
Ah, July. Garden grown tomatoes, long hot summer days, the smell of freshly cut grass, bumblebees happily buzzing by on their way to pollenate fl...
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by Word Alive Press
A shy young man musters up his courage one evening and forces himself to go to a dance being held in his small town. Drawing in a deep, calming b...
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by Word Alive Press
Some of the world’s funniest people had no sense of humour at all, but their work is hilarious. Think Lucille Ball. You don’t need a sense of hu...
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When I first read The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien’s detailed maps let me follow Samwise and Frodo to Mount Doom and imagine their journey vividly....
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Beverley Hopwood is the award-winning author of Gladys & Jack and its sequel, Kate & Ozzie, two historical novels that resulted from i...
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