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Category: Writer Advice (page 2)

Sci-Fi For Everyone: Four Tricks to Write Sci-Fi Anyone Will Read

As a multi-genre writer who writes sci-fi, I need to figure out how to retain my core audience while writing…
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Posted on: March 10, 2021 Last updated on: April 21, 2021 Comments: 1 Written by: Kyle

Writing as Sacrifice

A proper way of thinking about writing is that it is equivalent to sacrifice. I’ve written about this before, though…
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Posted on: March 3, 2021 Last updated on: March 3, 2021 Comments: 1 Written by: Kyle

Better Writing With Heuristics 2: SCENE

SCENE is an acronym-based heuristic I use when I assess my fiction writing and when I look at others’ writing.…
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Posted on: February 24, 2021 Last updated on: February 24, 2021 Comments: 2 Written by: Kyle

The Fine Art of Revision Preparation

Writing is a multi-step process. A first draft is rarely of sufficient quality to publish, but the art of getting…
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Posted on: December 16, 2020 Last updated on: December 16, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

Should You Use Writing Software to Edit?

In some of my MFA courses, I’ve brought up the fact that I use software to edit and gotten a…
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Posted on: December 9, 2020 Last updated on: December 9, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

NaNoWriMo 2020 Postmortem: What Did I Learn?

I successfully completed NaNoWriMo. Though the novel I was working on for it has two connecting bits left to write,…
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Posted on: December 2, 2020 Last updated on: December 2, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

NaNoWriMo Week 4: Planning or Pantsing

I have now written one complete novel and nine-tenths of another. For my first novel, I went through a robust…
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Posted on: November 25, 2020 Last updated on: November 25, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

Writing Bold Dialogue

Dialogue is a challenging part of the writing process. There are complete books written on good dialogue, and many chapters…
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Posted on: November 18, 2020 Last updated on: November 18, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

Bridging Craft and Practice

I am almost 30,000 words into my NaNoWriMo novel. One lesson I learned about my writing is that rushed writing…
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Posted on: November 11, 2020 Last updated on: March 27, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle

Getting the Novel Done (After Writing It)

Over the weekend, I finished the rough draft of my first novel and immediately started working on my second novel.…
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Posted on: November 4, 2020 Last updated on: November 4, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: Kyle
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