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Nov
7

Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating Prejudice in Fantasy

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In honor of the super-exclusive offer for Men with Pens readers only in regards on the Gamer Lifestyle Course, we’re turning our attention in this latter half of the special fiction week towards how to write realistically in fantasy worlds.
If you’ve missed the first posts in this special fiction writing series, you can read them [...]

Nov
4

Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Plot

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If you’re one of those people who writes copy for a living in order to make enough money to support your fiction writing endeavors, then this series is for you.
This week, Men with Pens offers a full six days of posts, each on writing fiction and boosting your potential to create a kick-ass novel. We’ll [...]

Nov
3

Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Setting

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If you’re one of those people who writes articles or ebooks or website copy for a living in order to make enough money to do the other kind of writing – yes, fiction – then this series is for you.
We’re offering a full week (yes, six posts) all about writing fiction and improving your [...]

Nov
2

Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Character

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If you’re one of those people who writes articles, ebooks or website copy for a living in order to make enough money to do the other kind of writing – yes, we mean fiction writing – then this week’s special daily post series is for you.
That’s right. For six consecutive days this week, we’ll be [...]

Oct
2

Does Your Fiction Novel Have a Theme?

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Today’s guest post is from Larry Brooks, the bestselling novelist talking novel over at Storyfix. We hope you enjoy his next installment in his guest series for fiction writers.
For an extra boost of fiction advice and tips, check out our other posts on fiction writing.
Have you ever put down a novel and thought to yourself, [...]

Aug
21

Three Key Questions to Ramp Up Your Story’s Mojo

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Lately, we’ve been running a series on fiction offered to us by our good friend and bestselling novelist Larry Brooks.
Click here to read Larry’s first post, Five Things You Need to Know to Write a Novel, click here to read his second post, Six Elements You Must Master to Write a Publishable Novel. Or, [...]

Aug
21

Are You a Pantser or a Plotter?

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Larry Brooks, the bestselling novelist over at Storyfix, brings us more wise words in the next installment of his guest series for fiction writers.
For an extra boost of fiction advice and tips, check out our other posts on fiction writing, too.
As someone who used to be an avid and vocal plot outliner — and I [...]

Jul
28

Six Elements You Must Master to Write a Publishable Novel

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We like to cater to the desires of all types of writers, from fiction to copywriting. (Check out our posts on fiction writing here.)
So when Larry Brooks, an old friend, an ex pro baseball player and most importantly a bestselling novelist, offered to write a series on fiction writing and getting published, I was quite [...]

Jul
28

Five Things You Absolutely Need to Know Before You Write a Novel

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We like to cater to the desires of all types of writers, from fiction to copywriting. (Check out our posts on fiction writing here.)
So when Larry Brooks, an old friend, an ex pro baseball player and most importantly a bestselling novelist, offered to write a series on fiction writing and getting published, I was quite [...]

Jan
12

Fiction Writing: Don’t Touch My Character!

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Fiction writers care deeply about the characters they bring to life. They think up personalities, quirks and flaws, they romanticize the image, and then they allow the vision of their character to pour forth in words.
As writers, we all want characters that come alive on the pages. Characters make or break a story. Get them [...]

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