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Your story's tense isn't just a grammar choice - it's a contract with your reader. Past tense says the narrator survived. The present tense says anything can happen. Which one are you signing?
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Whether consciously or unconsciously, there is one question you have to answer within the first few sentences of your story: Who is telling this tale? For most writers, the choice...
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Quill Loop is equal parts passion project and procrastination project, and it would almost certainly not exist if I hadn't tried to write a novel.When I started my manuscript the w...
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If you are a new writer there is one piece of advice you need to hear first, above anything else I or anyone else can give you. Your first draft sucks. No qualification, no buts —...
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