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Let’s be honest for a second… What percentage of people reading this have actually been in a fight? Not a video game fight, not a movie scene, but a real one—where fists fly, kicks miss, and your ribs ache for days after. Probably not many. And that’s why most beginner fight scenes read like awkward […]
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What You’ll Find Here Part One of the “11 Dialogue Tools That Level Up Your Novel” Series If your novel’s dialogue sounds like your characters are trapped in a Zoom meeting with bad Wi-Fi, we need to talk. Because nothing — nothing — makes a reader skim faster than cardboard conversations. And nothing makes them
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Expressive dialogue can either make your story sing like an angelic choir or fall flat like a deflated balloon at a surprise party nobody wanted. And here’s the thing about expressive dialogue, they don’t teach you this in those grammar-heavy writing courses. And I would know, I double majored in English and Classics at University
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If you’re a first-time author, read this before you post Your First chapter online—or hit publish. The truth is, most first-time author mistakes don’t happen halfway through the book.They happen on page one and in the first chapter. So you’re writing your first book—and you’re staring at that blinking cursor, praying your first chapter sticks
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