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How to Use Flash Fiction to Hone Your Writing
I’m addicted to flash fiction. I enjoy the challenge of compacting a story into a thousand words or fewer—and watching other writers do it too! But flash fiction is more than a method for writing quick, poignant stories. It’s an incredibly useful yet overlooked tool for refining your skills in general.
Dear Christian Novelists: Cleanness Is Not Next to Godliness
Many Christian storytellers desire to set themselves apart from the secular world by writing clean stories. Clean fiction can have a purpose, especially if the target audience expects it. But if all Christian fiction is clean, I’d contend that we’ve lost something. Here’s why.
4 Steps to Painlessly Research Historical Fiction
When I think about researching the time period my book is set in, I cringe. How do I write it without becoming overwhelmed and giving up?
3 Ways Hunger Games Engages Readers with Foreshadowing
A scene pauses for a moment on a scrap of paper tucked beneath a chair. A hero feels uneasy as the last-ditch plan against the villain is set into motion. Foreboding music plays as a young woman takes a shortcut through the park late at night. All of the above are examples of foreshadowing, which is a literary device that allows writers to hint at future events without hitting readers over the head.
7 Rules for Grabbing Readers with Powerful Dialogue
If your story features more than one character, it probably contains dialogue. Unfortunately, dialogue can be challenging to write, because it needs to sound natural or it will fall flat. As if that isn’t bad news enough, cultivating an ear for dialogue is not an overnight process.
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