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December 2014

• How to Pitch Your Novel: What’s the Difference Between Your Story’s Hook and Your Story’s Heart?: When figuring out how to pitch your novel, you may realize your story’s hook and its heart might not be compatible within such a short description.
• A Quick Guide to Beta Reader Etiquette: At last! A manual for beta reader etiquette – for how beta readers should conduct themselves and how writers, in turn, should respond.
• What’s the Difference Between Your Story’s Theme and Its Message?: You can’t have a theme without a message, since your message is the vehicle on which your story’s theme will reach your readers.
• Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 36: Too Much Introspection, Not Enough Interaction: Largely, the cure for this 36th of our most common writing mistakes harks back to one of my favorite bits of writing advice: “Skip the boring parts!”