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Your main character has a pet. What kind of animal is it? What role does it play in the plot?

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NaNoWriMo Prompt for Today
Your main character has a secret. What is it? Why does he/she go to great lengths to hide it from everyone else?

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Sulu the book-reading black cat recommends: "Writing Vivid Plots: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors" by Rayne Hall.

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Sulu the book-reading black cat recommends: 'Writing and Publishing Short Stories: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors.' 😍

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@amberlough @bookstodon it feels like a little death – or murder

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I'm encountering the same scary thing in my current total rewrite of my work in progress: characters are being left on the cutting room floor. It's fine, I know it's going to be fine, because I've done this before.

Have you ever cut or been advised to cut characters? Did you do it? Why or why not?

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I discovered that when I cut characters, it makes the other relationships so much clearer, but also more precious. I write #middlegrade, so I don't want to have a cast of thousands when my reader could be between 8 and 12 years old.

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I did, and it worked out fine. The story got better. I cut the first 2800 words of my manuscript & more or less started at chapter 3. Yeah, it was scary. But my agent told me the beginning was still too slow, and she was right. (I love Arturo, who I hope makes it back into another story of mine one day.)

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I'm going to talk about the hardest thing you might be asked to do to your manuscript -- cut characters. (A thread). I swear I never would have tried this with my debut FRIEND ME if I hadn't been about to go on a week-long writing retreat where I had the time to try this crazy thing.

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Sorting out threads. My system isn’t very neat or systematic for that matter, but I love that I keep them in a Georgian portable writing desk. It sort of feels like the perfect metaphor for me. But I think it is time to what to do with all the stitched things I have made in the past year in. Very occasionally I turn things into cushions or cards, or give them away but I have no idea what to do with this lot. Answers on a postcard please? #needlework #embroidery #craft #eighteenth #writerscraft

It's a glorious day that starts with a new Frances Hardinge book: UNRAVELLER. The way she world-builds is like few other authors I know: effortless, as if she doesn't much mind whether you know what's going on (although she makes sure you can figure it out.) It's fantasy & reminds me of NEVERMOOR, but it's #youngadult instead of #middlegrade. I'm in love again.

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