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Writing Team: Jun 23, 2025 8:00:00 AM
Most aspiring fantasy writers trap themselves in Tolkien's shadow, crafting yet another pseudo-medieval realm complete with castles, dragons, and...
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Writing Team: Jun 16, 2025 9:00:00 AM
The fantasy genre commands nearly 25% of all fiction sales, yet many writers struggle with a fundamental question: should their magical story unfold...
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Writing Team: Jun 16, 2025 9:00:00 AM
Every writer knows the terror of "The End"—not because the story is finished, but because you're never quite sure if it's really over. Did you tie up...
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Writing Team: Jun 9, 2025 3:08:40 PM
We've all heard the myth: brilliant novelists receive story ideas like lightning strikes—sudden, complete, and blazing with possibility. Virginia...
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Writing Team: Jun 5, 2025 1:01:09 PM
Romance readers possess a peculiar relationship with time—they'll devour 400 pages in one sitting but revolt against characters falling in love...
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Writing Team: May 27, 2025 9:16:21 AM
You're standing before Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," lost in the enigmatic gaze that has captivated viewers for centuries. Imagine that...
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Writing Team: May 26, 2025 5:13:13 PM
We often think we know a place until we walk it at 3 AM, or during a thunderstorm, or in the company of someone who sees ghosts on every corner. Guy...
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Writing Team: May 8, 2025 2:51:40 PM
A novelist's desk once featured predictable tools: typewriter, paper, pencils for edits, perhaps a thesaurus within arm's reach. Virginia Woolf had...
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Writing Team: Mar 31, 2025 1:16:47 PM
Perfecting your writing can be a time-consuming, even frustrating, task. Fortunately, AI writing generators have revolutionized the way we write,...
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Writing Team: Mar 31, 2025 1:10:31 PM
Choosing the right narrative tense is one of the first—and most important—decisions a novelist makes. While present tense has grown in popularity,...
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Writing Team: Mar 24, 2025 11:30:45 AM
In a literary landscape increasingly influenced by digital culture, LitRPG has emerged as one of the most fascinating genre developments of the past...
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Writing Team: Mar 17, 2025 2:19:41 PM
At the frontier where literature meets technology, a revolutionary narrative form is emerging: biofeedback fiction. This innovative approach...
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Writing Team: Mar 10, 2025 4:19:14 PM
Palimpsest fiction is a literary technique where stories are written in layers, with each iteration rewriting, commenting on, or obscuring the...
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Writing Team: Mar 10, 2025 4:15:32 PM
The revolutionary British comedy group Monty Python transformed humor in the late 1960s through the 1980s, creating an influential style that...
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Writing Team: Mar 2, 2025 1:19:01 PM
Writers have long explored perspectives beyond the human experience through personification and allegory. But a more radical narrative approach...
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Writing Team: Mar 2, 2025 1:12:59 PM
In creative writing, the fusion of seemingly incompatible genres has emerged as a fertile ground for innovation. These "microgenre mashups" offer...
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Writing Team: Feb 9, 2025 2:02:32 PM
When writing crime fiction, one of the questions that often arises is how much accuracy readers expect. Should writers spend endless hours...
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Writing Team: Feb 9, 2025 1:58:04 PM
In a world where AI chatbots write your dating profiles and smart fridges judge your midnight snacking habits, sometimes the only response is to...
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Writing Team: Feb 9, 2025 1:51:32 PM
Color is a powerful tool in writing, often used to evoke mood, atmosphere, and symbolism. But what if you challenge yourself to write using a single...
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Writing Team: Jan 19, 2025 1:57:39 PM
Dramatic irony is a literary device where the audience knows more about a situation than the characters in the story do. It creates tension, humor,...
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Writing Team: Jan 19, 2025 1:40:44 PM
For creative writers, words are more than tools—they're jewels. And like any jewel, some words and phrases shine brighter than others, catching the...
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Writing Team: Dec 3, 2024 11:53:05 AM
In an illuminating discussion, authors and writing coaches Kate Riordan and Anissa Gray, both from The Novelry, cover the profound topic of using...
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Writing Team: Nov 25, 2024 9:50:25 AM
The art of substitution in writing creates layers of meaning that can elevate prose from mundane to memorable. Two of the most powerful tools in this...
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Writing Team: Nov 25, 2024 9:45:30 AM
Hauntological writing emerges from the intersection of memory, lost futures, and cultural ghosts. For writers seeking to master this distinctive...
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Writing Team: Nov 19, 2024 6:58:16 PM
Reverse chronology—often referred to as "untelling"—is a narrative technique where events unfold backward in time, challenging traditional...
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Writing Team: Nov 19, 2024 6:53:44 PM
Ancestral fiction is a rich and complex literary approach that intertwines the threads of history, identity, and collective memory. By embracing the...
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Writing Team: Nov 18, 2024 9:00:00 AM
In a world overwhelmed by noise, minimalist fiction stands as a quiet rebellion. It's an art form that proves the old adage: sometimes less isn't...
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Writing Team: Nov 11, 2024 3:40:52 PM
Found footage fiction has become a popular genre, especially in literature and film, offering a unique narrative experience by weaving together...
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Writing Team: Nov 11, 2024 3:37:51 PM
Eco-fabulism is a unique literary and artistic genre where nature takes on a central role—either as a savior or as a force of destruction. This genre...
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Writing Team: Oct 21, 2024 8:30:00 AM
As far as literary techniques go, hyperbolic fictionis a genre that pushes the boundaries of reality to their absolute limits. This article reviews...
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Writing Team: Oct 21, 2024 8:30:00 AM
Linguistic constraints offer writers a unique challenge and readers an intriguing experience. This article explores two specific constraints: writing...
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Writing Team: Oct 15, 2024 3:32:41 PM
In the vast landscape of literary techniques, monologue fiction stands out as a unique and powerful form of storytelling. This article explores the...
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Writing Team: Oct 2, 2024 2:22:28 PM
In literature, film, and art, the lines between pastiche and parody are often blurred. Both forms of creative expression borrow from or imitate...
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Writing Team: Jun 14, 2024 4:50:29 PM
It's time to flip the script on how writers approach their craft. For far too long, the writing community has been stuck in a rut of self-doubt,...
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Writing Team: May 31, 2024 3:52:15 PM
It's time to talk about the elephant in the room, the one thing holding you back from unleashing your inner creative genius: resistance.
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Writing Team: May 18, 2024 10:00:30 AM
Attention all you writers, dreamers, and goal-chasers out there! Listen up because we're about to dive into the wonderful world of vision boards and...
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Writing Team: May 4, 2024 1:23:49 PM
If you're itching to learn how to write a bedtime story that'll knock the socks off your readers and send them drifting off to dreamland with a smile...
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Writing Team: May 4, 2024 1:19:14 PM
Hold onto your hats, folks, because we're about to dive headfirst into the dynamic world of frenemies! These enigmatic relationships, which straddle...
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Writing Team: Mar 8, 2024 11:54:58 PM
In fiction writing, the art of keeping readers engaged is a delicate dance. Unwanted exits and narrative shifts are pivotal in shaping the reader's...
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Writing Team: Oct 26, 2023 3:26:55 PM
Bizarro Fiction, a relatively new genre often likened to the cult section in your video store, has been a niche of literary experimentation.
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Writing Team: Oct 26, 2023 3:13:31 PM
Verbal irony, often mistaken, is an element that likely permeates your speech without your conscious awareness.
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Writing Team: Sep 24, 2023 12:00:31 AM
Ah, slipstream fiction. Much like speculative fiction, it lives in that nebulous territory between literary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy....
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Writing Team: Sep 11, 2023 12:06:00 PM
In writing fiction, or even performance art, it's essential to understand the role of a kick-off event – that opening scene that sets the stage for...
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Writing Team: Sep 11, 2023 11:59:04 AM
Okay, so when it comes to storytelling, we've got this thing called a "story beat," and it turns out there are two different flavors to it, each...
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Writing Team: Sep 7, 2023 8:23:33 AM
Creative writing has always been a realm of endless possibilities, and sometimes, the most captivating stories sprout from the most unexpected seeds...
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Writing Team: Sep 1, 2023 4:54:10 PM
Cryptic crosswords are the enigmatic gems of the puzzling world, where words become intricate puzzles waiting to be unraveled. But have you ever...
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Writing Team: Aug 25, 2023 11:40:15 AM
Let's pause and explore the enchanting world of serendipity, where chance encounters and seemingly trivial coincidences lead to extraordinary...
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Writing Team: Aug 25, 2023 11:36:20 AM
Deep within the recesses of myth and legend lies a realm where reality and imagination intertwine. In "Whispers of the Labyrinth: Conversations with...
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Writing Team: Aug 15, 2023 3:52:20 PM
Imagination is a wondrous force that has the ability to create entire worlds and characters from the depths of our minds. It's a tool we often...
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Writing Team: Aug 15, 2023 3:46:51 PM
Urban legends, those chilling tales whispered in hushed tones around campfires and shared in late-night conversations, have a peculiar way of...
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