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A J Hartley

Act of Will

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Rules of Writing: Show, Don’t Tell, (Except When You Tell)

We talk a lot here at MagicalWords.Net about the rules of writing, when to adhere to the rules like iron filings to an electromagnet, and when to break those rules, when to do something different. Last week, I was deeply into my WIP. Which is still untitled, by the way, and is making me feel [...]

Writing Your Book, part VI: The End Game

For those of you who have been following this “Writing Your Book” series from it’s inception, please don’t panic.  If you began your novel when we started the series in early January, no one expects that you’re just about done.  Writing a novel takes a while, and every writer works at a different pace.  That’s [...]

Chapter Headings. Really.

In high school, the first poet I ever really got into was e. e. cummings.  Now that I think of it, he may be the only poet I ever really gotten into.  Part of the joy in his poetry is not the words, but the form they would take.  He understood that the way something [...]

Twenty-One Fatal Techniques

Taken from Chris Roerden’s book on self-editing:

Don’t Murder Your Mystery: Edit It.

 

My Friend, Chris Roerden, has done a great job reducing writing flaws into simple, easy-to-follow *rules* to help you get that first book sale. In her books, Don’t [...]