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How to Create Mood in a Story: 7 Tips to Build Atmosphere
Learn what mood is and how it’s created through helpful exercises and examples from classic and contemporary literature.
April 25th, 2025
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Clarity in Writing: Tips to Sharpen Your Text
We share our top tips to improve the clarity of your writing, all the way from word-level to full-text considerations.
April 25th, 2025
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What Makes an Antinovel? 6 Key Elements and Examples
Learn how to write experimental fiction that breaks traditional rules and challenges the way we think about stories.
April 23rd, 2025
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100+ Euphemism Examples to Authenticate Your Writing
100+ euphemism examples with tips on how to use them authentically in your writing.
April 22nd, 2025
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How to Write A Dystopian Story: 5 Steps to a Terrifying Future
Learn how to write a dystopian story that feels scarily possible.
April 15th, 2025
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How to Sell Your Book (Online and In-Store)
So you’ve just self-published your book — that’s huge, and you should be proud! But now comes the part no one’s warned you about: selling it to readers and retailers. To help you out, we’ve compiled a few strategies that have been proven to work.
April 10th, 2025
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How to Describe Faces: Pro Tips + Examples
How do you describe characters that leap off the page? In this post, we’ll go beyond surface-level descriptions and explore advanced techniques for writing about characters’ faces, with practical tips and examples that will help bring them to life.
April 9th, 2025
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How to Write a Flashback: Tips, Examples, and Mistakes to Avoid
Are you ready to take your readers on a walk down memory lane? Here are four things to think about when writing a flashback.
April 7th, 2025
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Self-Publishing on Amazon: 12 Pros and Cons
Should you self-publish on Amazon? Consider these 12 pros and cons before you decide.
April 2nd, 2025
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How to Start a Scene: 5 Ways to Reel in Readers
If you know where your scene is headed but can’t figure out how it should start, you’re not alone. Luckily, we’ve assembled 5 tips that great writers can use to hook their readers from the second the curtain goes up.
March 31st, 2025
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How to Describe Characters + 16 Character Description Examples
In this article, we'll look at essential character description techniques as well as some illustrative examples from literature, TV, and movies to give you some inspiration for how to write multi-dimensional characters yourself.
March 26th, 2025
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