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Assess Your Novel-Writing Progress With These Four Questions
You have to check the status of your novel now and again during the writing process---things do go wrong, after all...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Create, Complicate, Resolve: The Keys to Keeping Your Readers Interested
So how DO you keep from boring the socks off your readers (And in a related question, how do you keep from putting YOURSELF into a coma while writing your story...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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4 Thinking Barriers That Keep You From Writing...And Succeeding
Sooner or later, every human being has to deal with obstacles, barriers, struggles heartbreak and loss...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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4 Steps To Finding Your Novel's Market
So You're pounding the keyboard to pieces writing this story that just rips your heart out...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Life, Passion... Deadline
The Conclusion of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
You're ready to write the story of your life...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Planning A Heart-Stopping Story
Part VII of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
Over the last six lessons, you've figured out your theme, and you've worked out at least one and possibly several subthemes...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Interweaving Your Novel's Themes And Subthemes
Part VI of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
When you're writing a book, you want every page to drag the reader to the next one, even if she's late for work, even if it's two o'clock in the morning and he needs to be up at six, even if the plane has landed and your weary traveller really must get bags in hand and get off the plane...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Dig Deeper With Your Novel's Subthemes
Part V of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
By now, you have a solid grasp of the importance of having a theme for your story, of keeping it personal and hidden (to avoid writing the dreaded Message Book), and of hanging on to the courage of your convictions in writing it the way you need to, knowing that you cannot ever please everyone, nor should you try...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Playing Chicken With Your Story
Part IV of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
And now we come to the hard bit You've got your theme, and you've figured out how to bury it so that it's there for you, and SOMETHING meaningful is there for your reader...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Burying Your Novel's Message
Part III of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
In the first two articles, we've explored how essential it is to have a theme to give your novel direction, and how to find those themes that will resonate with you...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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How To Find Your Novel's Pulse
PART II of The 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
The best novels you've ever read---the ones that stuck in your mind and kept you going back to re-read them, that made you think, that made you feel, maybe that scared your socks off---were not about what they were about...
Author: Holly Lisle - Category: Writing
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Does Your Novel Have A Heartbeat?
PART I of The 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series
You've read through what you've written---your first few scenes, your first chapter, your completed novel---and you've discovered that your words don't move you...
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