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by S.E. White As in: flawed, yet awesome. No one wants to read boring perfection. I’ll list my top two favorite female literary characters, straight off the top of my head, to start making my point: via Make Your Characters Flawsome — A Writer’s Path

by Destine Williams Writing is a strange process that can be difficult to understand, especially if there are some of you still working towards your first book, or want to write, but don’t know where to start. A lot of people never finish, or start, stop, and never go back because of “writer’s […] via The… Continue reading The Nature of Change and Writer’s Block — A Writer’s Path

by Samantha Fenton It’s important to grasp the whole of any character you’re writing. You, as the author, should know your characters better than anyone — even the readers. An author notices every quirk, step, and glance a character ever makes. After all, the author is the sole creator: the god. As I’m […] via Things… Continue reading Things I Ask My Characters — A Writer’s Path

by Doug Lewars I don’t write non-fiction but I know something about it if, for no other reason, than I’ve found it necessary over the years to read a goodly amount of it. Subjects can be highly arcane to mundane; but, the one thing that is critical is research. It is essential that […] via Tips… Continue reading Tips For Writing Non-Fiction — A Writer’s Path

by Meg Dowell The writer-reader connection is delicate. Possibly one of the biggest challenges new writers face is figuring out how to create a bond between themselves and people they may never meet face-to-face. How do you connect with someone in such a way that they feel you’re speaking only to them? How […] via How… Continue reading How to Connect With Your Readers — A Writer’s Path

by Andrea Lundgren Characters do all kinds of things in fiction. Their actions make up the stories we write, and if they did nothing…it’d be pretty boring. But how much motivation should there be in what they do? Do you, as the author, need to always know why they’re doing it, or can […] via Character… Continue reading Character Actions: Should There Be a Reason Why? — A Writer’s Path

by Elizabeth Preston As readers, we root for a kiss to happen between the characters who we know are just meant to be together in a novel. When it finally happens, we inwardly cheer (okay, sometimes outwardly as well) and then move on. via Pucker Up: Writing a Kissing Scene — A Writer’s Path

by Doug Lewars I enjoy writing in the Fantasy genre and World Building is a part of that. It may or may not be extensive. For example, you can simplify your life considerably if you use our existing world and just add a bit of magic here and there. J.K. Rowling uses that […] via The… Continue reading The Complications of World Building For an Author — A Writer’s Path

by J.J. Hensley For seven years, I had the pleasure of being a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. During that time, I conducted a variety of criminal investigations involving counterfeiting, check fraud, wire fraud, and even cell phone cloning. via How Pitching a Novel is Like Being in the Secret Service — A… Continue reading How Pitching a Novel is Like Being in the Secret Service — A Writer’s Path

Go ahead, Google something along the lines of prologues in novels. I’ll wait. Done? If so, you’ll have found links like 7 Deadly Sins of Prologues, The Worst Ways to Begin Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents, The Dreaded Prologue, Question: the oft-maligned prologue, and so on. Read these four pages. Did you see the following?… Continue reading The Puzzling Prologue Problem — A Writer’s Path