Tag: Publishing
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Add Emojis and Colors to Character Folders
Organize your digital character profiles in colored file folders with Emojis. Then, you can see essential character names, traits, and roles at a glance.
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Beyond Story Structure to Focus on Now
This post will get to the focus on now after a brief walk down memory lane (the place where story structure lives in the links below).
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Show Your Character’s Change
Memorable stories show the hero’s transformation. Use the Enneagram to strike the right balance of before and after your character’s change.
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Redeem the Time to Write
To publish a full-length novel, you first have to redeem the time to write. Fortunately, your future comes one choice at a time.
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Best Writing Is Hard Work
Bestselling authors use patterns of rich descriptions (lyrical prose), fresh similes, and witty rants for best writing, and you can too!
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Survey Topics 2026
Like you, I love to read interesting and actionable posts about writing. My goal is to create posts that fit that benchmark, and you can play an important part.
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Use a Writer’s Toolbox to Develop Characters
Many authors discovered it’s much easier to keep everything they need in a writer’s toolbox. How about you?
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Write Like the Wind, but Edit Like a Surgeon
Both pantsers and plotters should consider this writing principle: write like the wind, but edit like a surgeon.
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Story Beats Will Solve Your Problem
Story beats will solve your problem of arranging hundreds of details by using this time-tested process.
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Free Story Beats Workbook Package
While updating a book draft, I kept referring to its Story Spine, Body, and Beats worksheets. I find these writing tools so useful, and that gave me the idea to give a free Story Beats Workbook Package to the first 50 people who sign up using the link on this page.
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How You Can Beat AI at Writing
The value you give readers can beat AI at writing by providing audiences with authentic human experiences and emotions.
