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• Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 58: Too Much Description: Avoiding too much description is ultimately about controlling your entire narrative. Use these description tips to advance your plot, character, and theme.
• How to Benefit From the Biggest Reason for Storytelling: In order to write pertinent and powerful stories, you must first understand why art is so important. Here are 3 reasons for the existence of stories.
• What Does It Mean to Move the Plot?: The concept of how to move the plot often seems vague. Here is an easy way to know which scenes accomplish this necessary story technique and which do not.
• 3 Ways to Test Your Story’s Emotional Stakes: Make sure your story passes these 3 important tests for acing its emotional stakes, and you’ll never have any problem getting readers to suspend disbelief.
• 3 Ways to Make Your Writing More Visual: Only a handful of things raise a novel from mediocrity into something truly memorable. Learning how to make your writing more visual is one of them.