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Here we share advice on how to make your fiction stand out from the crowd.

Visual Tools #1: Mood Board & Character Attributes
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Visual Tools #1: Mood Board & Character Attributes

15/05/202215/05/2022 Posy Churchgate

Have you been staring at your blank screen and the reproachful blinking cursor? Despite having an idea bursting to become a short story or a book, you may be struggling to translate it into words?

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Storytelling is an Art
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Storytelling is an Art

26/01/202228/01/2022 May More

I will skim over punctuation or grammar inconsistencies if the writer is a great storyteller. But, if someone has a grammatically and structurally perfect narrative but does not possess the skill to entertain me from the start, I’ll close the page and move on.

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Character Motivation
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Character Motivation

07/01/202207/01/2022 Blogable

Without your character having something that is motivating them, something that is heavy on their mind which may then spur them towards acting in a certain way, then you may as well leave them out of your story…

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Character Traits
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Character Traits

28/09/202128/09/2021 Marie A. Rebelle

Every person on the face of this earth has positive and negative character traits, and so should the characters in your story. A character can’t be all good, or all negative.

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Narrator Types

21/09/202120/09/2021 Blogable

The narrator is the person who tells the story, who lets the reader ‘hear’ and ‘see’ what happens in the story. The mode of narration is also called the ‘point of view’.

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Replace the word ‘said’ in your writing
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Replace the word ‘said’ in your writing

07/09/202105/09/2021 Blogable

There are many other words you can use to replace ‘said’, and at the same time bring across the feelings of your characters.

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