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July 2011
- Why You Should Kick Your Story Aside and Write a Different One: Few authors reach publication with their first novel.
- What “The Story Knows Best” Really Means: What does this idea that “the story knows best” really mean?
- Deus Ex Machina: Latin for “Don’t Do This in Your Story”: You might find yourself walking through the yellow caution tape into the pothole of deus ex machina before you realize the danger.
- The Fast and Easy Guide to Writing Characters of the Opposite Gender: Writers too often create unrealistic characters by imposing their own perceptions (or fantasies) onto the opposite sex.
- Is Your Opening Line Lying to Your Readers?: Your opening line may be bristling with energy, danger, and barbed fishhooks with which to reel in your readers, but if the paragraph that follows pulls the old switcheroo, your reader is more likely to be irritated than impressed.
