HeyJaredA Writer's Block: Robb Grindstaff
Real-world, practical tips and techniques for fiction writers to help you lift your prose, which will lift your stories and characters.
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To build characters, think like a journalist (opens the original)
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Today’s special guest columnist is my friend and cohort in writerly crime, Ekta R. Garg.
Desert Walk (opens the original)
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Author’s NoteI committed to publishing one of my short stories here on A Writer’s Block each time there is a fifth Monday. Then I blew right past that resolution on August 31 because we were in the middle of a series.That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.Back on June 29, I posted the horror story “Desert Rain,” the first in a triptych. Not a trilogy, as they are three unrelated stories, three different genres, but all set in the Sonoran Desert of the A
Odds and ends of a novel series (opens the original)
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IntroductionWe’ll wrap up this series on series with a laundry list of perhaps smaller but critically important elements that writers need to keep in mind.<img alt="assorted clothes lot in b
Arcs of a novel series (opens the original)
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IntroductionDid anyone notice that I quietly expanded this four-part series into five parts? That happens with novel series sometimes too.Today, let’s look at the arcs involved in a series.<img a
The novel series bible (opens the original)
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NEW TO THIS SERIES?If so, you’re joining in the middle of what is now a five-part series. Click the link to start at the beginning.IntroductionI’m a big proponent of planning your standalone novel at least to some degree, and at some point in the writing process. That might be all in advance, before you’ve written the first sentence.I’m also a big fan o… <a href="https:
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