Laurel

Hi, Guys!  So I am helping a friend of mine edit a short story.  But the problem is, I don’t really know how to help edit.  I mean, I think I know the basics, but I don’t want to critique too much.  Any tips?

-Kylie

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Character introductions are very important in a book. What kinds of things do we need to remember when we are working on the beginning of our WIPs? K.M. Weiland has a few in her book, Structuring Your Novel that I’m going to share with you today.

• Compile all necessary components of your story in the first act. Anything that is mentioned later…

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For those doing NaNoWriMo, this could be helpful for you. And even for those who aren’t.

There are a few things you need to make sure you have in your first few chapters. I’ll go into a little more detail on some of them in subsequent weeks, but for now I’ll just go into a couple of quick things you want should include.

• Plant an irresistible…

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The numbers are in! We came in last, but next month we shall prevail! FYI, there is no prompt war for November, BUT  instead we are doing a month-long word war! So keep track of those word counts every day this month!

Avensbeck – 26627

Erekdale – 47230

Rillumen – 48371

New Wessex – 51082

Meraki- 53253

Parimi Alfa – 72127

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Avensers Assemble!

This lesson is going to be a quick one because I don’t have a lot of time today, but I also don’t think it needs a ton of explanation.

Open with the first dramatic event

Finding this event will help you figure out the first domino in your story’s line of dominoes that just keep getting knocked down until the last one at the…[Read more]

Avensers Assemble!

Story Embers has a new page. It’s called the Guilds page and it has the Guild Logos and who has won each of the wars. If you click on the logo, you will see a little bio of each of the guilds. You can find it here: https://storyembers.org/guilds/.

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Avensers assemble!

It’s time for a word war. If you’re new to this event, a word war is where you will keep track of all of your fiction writing and next Tuesday evening, you will report your word counts. Then I will gather all of those counts and report our total and see how we stacked up against the rest of the guilds.

What counts toward the…[Read more]

Howdy, ever’body! I hope your goals went well last week. What are your goals for this fine week?

Mine are to finish the General and Outlining sections of my outline and send out my blog tour info.

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Good morning, Avensers! (Side note: every time I see that word, I want to say “Avengers Assemble!” or something like that)

Today, I am going to start a series on story structure. Because that’s what I’m learning a lot about right now. All of this information is coming from my notes from reading Structuring Your Novel by K.M. Weiland.

The first…[Read more]