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08
OCT
2017

I miss reading

Admittedly, the one I thing I've missed the most during the past few months when I started at my new job is being able to…

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25
JUN
2017

Elements of Horror

I'm in the process of publishing my second short story, most likely in a month's time. It's a horror story, titled At Horizon's End. Horror…

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24
JUL
2016

Better ways to say

During draft, we are allowed to do anything, write our stories in whatever way we want, how ever they come natural, without paying attention at…

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26
JUL
2015

Productivity tools

In the midst of a heat wave, with temperatures expected to remain high throughout the following week, I find my motivation waning, and as a result…

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23
NOV
2014

7 point story system

Today's post deals with another way to structure a story and it's called 7 Point Story System. According to writer Dan Wells, who made a…

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02
NOV
2014

Dialogue

Dialogue has been one of the hardest things I have to tackle when I write. When I first started writing, I read somewhere that dialogue…

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12
OCT
2014

Staying focused

For the past two weeks, my mind has been all over the place and I have found it very difficult to focus and reach my…

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07
SEP
2014

Characters

When I first started writing I thought very little about the importance of characters in a story. All I cared about was the story, the…

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