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Alright. I’m not going to say that thing I’m not supposed to say, but I might as well give up on calling Ali Hale a guest poster. She’s more like a Featured Blogger ’round here at the Pen Men Palace. (Can we have disco music and flashing lights?) Well, she would have been, except she [...]

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Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating Prejudice in Fantasy

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 [...]

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Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Plot

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. [...]

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Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Setting

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 [...]

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Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Character

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 [...]

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Does Your Fiction Novel Have a Theme?

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 [...]

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Three Key Questions to Ramp Up Your Story’s Mojo

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, [...]

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Are You a Pantser or a Plotter?

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 — [...]

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Six Elements You Must Master to Write a Publishable Novel

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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