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Happy New Year Writers—It’s Time to Get Productive!
Happy New Year fellow writers! Now it’s time to get productive…kick off your 2020 with tips to increase your productivity by developing good writing habits, slaying procrastination, beating writer’s block, and writing fearless.
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Edith Wharton’s 5 Rules for Novelists
Using her own set of rules, bestselling author Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence 100 years ago. Author Arielle Zibrak offers up five of these rules, demonstating Wharton’s literary wisdom and perhaps in part explaining why she continues to be widely read today.
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How to Choose the Best Names for Your Characters
While naming fictional characters may be writer nirvana, it still must be done with care. Editor Dana Isaacson offers tips on how to how to choose wisely.
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HOW TO BE FUNNY, ON PAPER AND OFF: New York Times Bestselling Author and New Yorker Cartoonist Bob Eckstein on Writing Humor
Career Authors talks to New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein about his wit, his work and his world view—not necessarily in that order.
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THE CAREER AUTHORS 11: WILLIAM MARTIN
An exclusive THE CAREER AUTHORS 11 Interview with the king of the historical thriller, New York Times Bestselling Author WILLIAM MARTIN.
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Five Writing Crimes and How to Get Away With Them
Rules. Rules are meant to be broken. Writers, however, need to know them first. Break them well, though, and there’s respect. Let’s visit some rules and learn ways to bend them.
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Setting Your Setting
The setting makes the story come alive, and without it, your book is a screenplay. Here’s how to make sure your readers know where they are from page one.
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Secrets of Suspense: What I Learned From JAWS
Fast-paced, breakneck speed, unrelenting suspense — what readers are looking for in fiction, and how we want them to describe our books.
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Supporting Character Guide – Small Roles that Make a Big Difference
They might not be the lead or even have a POV, but that doesn’t mean supporting characters don’t play an important role. To help explain why, we at Career Authors proudly present Supporting Characters Guide: Character Engineering for Writers
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