#improveyourwriting — Public Fediverse posts
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Finding Your Voice as a Writer in the Age of AI
Life experiences are what create your voice, brand you as an author, and make your writing worth reading.
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Resolution Isn’t the Only Payoff: What Short Stories Teach Us About Endings
With other essential elements in place, short story writers can consider leaving an ending ambiguous, with room for the reader to ruminate.
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Hide the Sawdust: Hone Your Focus Sentence
A good story, like a good hiking path, simply unfolds without seeming forced. Here's a tool that helps keep complex stories on track.
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Showing or Telling? How to Decide Based on Line Level, Scene Level, and Story Level
Both show and tell are essential tools for powerful storytelling. The trick is balancing their use at the line, scene, and story level.
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How Often Can You Ask Your Reader to Jump?
Transitioning away too often—to a flashback or a new scene—risks losing the depth of storytelling that readers get from living inside a scene.
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Genre as Delight, Not Dictator: How Learning About Genres Helps You Write Better
Applying genre labels to creative work can be vexing, but understanding each genre’s core concerns can also be inspiring and instructional.
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Write Your Book Like You’d Run a Startup
Sharing his work-in-progress has helped one writer build confidence and conviction about who his readers are and what they’re interested in.
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Crafting Cinematic Action by Scene Segmenting
By thinking like a filmmaker—planning your beats, deciding your shots—you create a vivid experience that pulls readers into the story.
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Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Use Stress Responses to Strengthen Your Scenes
Understanding stress responses as learned survival strategies can help you turn every high-stakes scene into character development on the page.
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Please Allow Your Characters Moments of Happiness
When a story barrels from one conflict to the next, hitting pause for a well-placed glimmer of light can benefit both characters and readers.
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What Makes Character Voice Memorable: Emotion
This excerpt from a new craft book by Jordan Rosenfeld explores the many ways our fictional characters manifest their internal emotions.
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Beyond the Accent: Writing Speech Patterns Authentically
Writers bear a responsibility to represent diverse voices authentically rather than falling into the trap of stereotype or caricature.
https://janefriedman.com/beyond-the-accent-writing-speech-patterns-authentically/