guide to writing
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There’s an old saying that goes, “a failure to plan is a plan to fail”, I’m not entirely sure how much I agree with this sentiment in terms of writing —but I will say this, having an outline makes the job a hell of a lot easier. In the beginning of my journey as a…
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What’s in a Character and where are we anyway? | A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Writing (without AI)
Characters Despite what some on the internet would seemingly have you believe, the characters that a writer creates are not in fact direct 1-1 parallels of themselves. Even if the characters are similar to the author and even if they’re somewhat based on the author. This isn’t to say that characters never bear any resemblance…
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Ideas are like opinions, it seems like everybody has one. One of the most common arguments that I have heard recently when it comes to the use of genAI in writing (and why people argue it should be acceptable) is the idea that “oh well a real person had to come up with the idea…
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Over the course of my life I have had a great deal of friends who were writers like myself. We all have different styles of writing, different preferred genres, and crucially, different styles of how we planned (or in my case at the time, didn’t) our stories. One of my friends in particular in my…
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This might disappoint you to hear, but my first piece of advice actually has nothing to do with writing per se and everything to do with what you do before you start writing. Reading. Nearly every writer that you know would agree that reading is absolutely fundamental to becoming a writer. Now I’m not Stephen…
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Why do you want to be a writer anyway? One of the foremost questions that I think is crucial to get clear on right off the bat is, why you want to be a writer in the first place. I’m not elitist enough to suggest that there is necessarily a right answer or a wrong…