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How To Deliver Important Backstory With Setting
Ah, backstory. According to many, this is the BIG BAD WORD in fiction. How many times have you heard someone say, “Backstory is bad, strip it from the scene!” or, “Backstory slows the pace, bogs down the action, and will only bore the reader.” Well, if you hang out at the same online writerly spaces...
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Grief on the Page: Why Most Fiction Gets It Wrong
Grief in fiction usually gets one scene and a funeral. Real grief doesn't clock out — it's a system, not a moment. A craft breakdown. -
When I post anywhere about writing process these days, I get disingenuous comments from all these bots and grifters trying to sell me editing, book design, marketing and other (probably scam) publishing services. They should be banished to whatever rotten hole on the internet they crawled out of and sealed away till the end of time. (Just watch them comment on this post. I wouldn't put it past them).
#writing #writingcraft #writingcommunity #bots #grifters #fake #publishing #hustlers
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How to Write Unique, Memorable Character Voices
Your character’s voice is the reader’s guide through your story. Readers hear your character in their head before they see them in their mind’s eye. A well-developed character voice stays with the reader long after they finish your book. When the voices aren’t unique, you’ll know… The Six Ingredients of Character Voice When character voices...
The post How to Write Unique, Memorable Character Voices appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®.
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I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #SisterSnake #ReadingLikeAWriter #FairyTale #Folklore #FolkTale #TimeMagic #Anachronism #WritingCraft #Books
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I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #SisterSnake #ReadingLikeAWriter #FairyTale #Folklore #FolkTale #TimeMagic #Anachronism #WritingCraft #Books
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I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #SisterSnake #ReadingLikeAWriter #FairyTale #Folklore #FolkTale #TimeMagic #Anachronism #WritingCraft #Books
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I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #SisterSnake #ReadingLikeAWriter #FairyTale #Folklore #FolkTale #TimeMagic #Anachronism #WritingCraft #Books
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I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #SisterSnake #ReadingLikeAWriter #FairyTale #Folklore #FolkTale #TimeMagic #Anachronism #WritingCraft #Books
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Write a 5-Star Book 2
When I set out to write Book 2 in my Fountain series, I made the common mistake of thinking it would be easier than the first one, which took me more than four years to write. After all, I’d already created the world and gotten to know my characters inside and out. I knew what […]…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/write-a-5-star-book-2/#Backstory #ResidentWritingCoach #Series #Worldbuilding #WritingCraft
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These gargoyles aren’t worried about explaining themselves to a human reader; they’re just trying to survive.
I wrote about Tara Campbell's fantastic CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES and an opening that unsettles.
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/city-dancing-gargoyles-and-decentering-humanity
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #ReadingLikeAWriter #Beginnings #DystopianSciFi #Fiction #Bookstodon #WritingCraft
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These gargoyles aren’t worried about explaining themselves to a human reader; they’re just trying to survive.
I wrote about Tara Campbell's fantastic CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES and an opening that unsettles.
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/city-dancing-gargoyles-and-decentering-humanity
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #ReadingLikeAWriter #Beginnings #DystopianSciFi #Fiction #Bookstodon #WritingCraft
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These gargoyles aren’t worried about explaining themselves to a human reader; they’re just trying to survive.
I wrote about Tara Campbell's fantastic CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES and an opening that unsettles.
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/city-dancing-gargoyles-and-decentering-humanity
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #ReadingLikeAWriter #Beginnings #DystopianSciFi #Fiction #Bookstodon #WritingCraft
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These gargoyles aren’t worried about explaining themselves to a human reader; they’re just trying to survive.
I wrote about Tara Campbell's fantastic CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES and an opening that unsettles.
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/city-dancing-gargoyles-and-decentering-humanity
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #ReadingLikeAWriter #Beginnings #DystopianSciFi #Fiction #Bookstodon #WritingCraft
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This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
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This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
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This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
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This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
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This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
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I wrote about a story from Farah Ali's The People Want to Live and the way a simple description can come to life through the layering of seeming contradiction.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCraft #FarahAli #ThePeopleWantToLive #Description #Layering #Contradiction #Characterization #TheLoft
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I wrote about a story from Farah Ali's The People Want to Live and the way a simple description can come to life through the layering of seeming contradiction.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCraft #FarahAli #ThePeopleWantToLive #Description #Layering #Contradiction #Characterization #TheLoft
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I wrote about a story from Farah Ali's The People Want to Live and the way a simple description can come to life through the layering of seeming contradiction.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCraft #FarahAli #ThePeopleWantToLive #Description #Layering #Contradiction #Characterization #TheLoft
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I wrote about a story from Farah Ali's The People Want to Live and the way a simple description can come to life through the layering of seeming contradiction.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCraft #FarahAli #ThePeopleWantToLive #Description #Layering #Contradiction #Characterization #TheLoft
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I wrote about the opening chapter to Erika T. Wurth's WHITE HORSE and how it pulls together the mundane and the creepy to both situate & get the story moving--and also do weirder things like evoke the uncanny & make brain explosions.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #BookOpenings #FirstPages #WritingCraft #ErikaTWurth #WhiteHorse #Horror #GenerationalTrauma #Monsters #Ghosts
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I wrote about the opening chapter to Erika T. Wurth's WHITE HORSE and how it pulls together the mundane and the creepy to both situate & get the story moving--and also do weirder things like evoke the uncanny & make brain explosions.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #BookOpenings #FirstPages #WritingCraft #ErikaTWurth #WhiteHorse #Horror #GenerationalTrauma #Monsters #Ghosts
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I wrote about the opening chapter to Erika T. Wurth's WHITE HORSE and how it pulls together the mundane and the creepy to both situate & get the story moving--and also do weirder things like evoke the uncanny & make brain explosions.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #BookOpenings #FirstPages #WritingCraft #ErikaTWurth #WhiteHorse #Horror #GenerationalTrauma #Monsters #Ghosts
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I wrote about the opening chapter to Erika T. Wurth's WHITE HORSE and how it pulls together the mundane and the creepy to both situate & get the story moving--and also do weirder things like evoke the uncanny & make brain explosions.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #BookOpenings #FirstPages #WritingCraft #ErikaTWurth #WhiteHorse #Horror #GenerationalTrauma #Monsters #Ghosts
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Here's something I wrote a while ago about about a really fascinating POV and THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #POV #Perspective #WritingCraft #ROKwon #TheIncendiaries
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Here's something I wrote a while ago about about a really fascinating POV and THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #POV #Perspective #WritingCraft #ROKwon #TheIncendiaries
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Here's something I wrote a while ago about about a really fascinating POV and THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #POV #Perspective #WritingCraft #ROKwon #TheIncendiaries
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Here's something I wrote a while ago about about a really fascinating POV and THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon.
#Books #Bookstodon #ReadingLikeAWriter #WritingCommunity #POV #Perspective #WritingCraft #ROKwon #TheIncendiaries
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This time I wrote about Paul Yoon's SNOW HUNTERS and how a passage that layers contradictory emotions can get us to _feel_ in an amazing way, creating an experience beyond what can be articulated.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #SnowHunters #PaulYoon #LayeringEmotion #paradox #contradiction
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This time I wrote about Paul Yoon's SNOW HUNTERS and how a passage that layers contradictory emotions can get us to _feel_ in an amazing way, creating an experience beyond what can be articulated.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #SnowHunters #PaulYoon #LayeringEmotion #paradox #contradiction
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This time I wrote about Paul Yoon's SNOW HUNTERS and how a passage that layers contradictory emotions can get us to _feel_ in an amazing way, creating an experience beyond what can be articulated.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #SnowHunters #PaulYoon #LayeringEmotion #paradox #contradiction
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This time I wrote about Paul Yoon's SNOW HUNTERS and how a passage that layers contradictory emotions can get us to _feel_ in an amazing way, creating an experience beyond what can be articulated.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #SnowHunters #PaulYoon #LayeringEmotion #paradox #contradiction
