Novel writing – Write Well, Write To Sell

10/26/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 33 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, fiction writing, finding and fixing story flaws, good writing techniques, rick taubold, story flaws

From Rick: In PART-1, I talked about three major flaws a story can have: (1) The story fails to engage the reader (2) The characters fail to engage the reader (3) The story takes too long to become interesting (or

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Using scene breaks properly

09/07/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 65 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, scene breaks

From Rick: From time to time I receive questions about scenes and scene breaks. We’ve all heard the term “scene” used, but we don’t often hear it defined. Here’s one concise definition I found online: “A scene is a section

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Tips for writing a scene

06/22/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 120 Views 1 Comment rick taubold, writing scenes

From Rick: You’ll find many articles on the internet and whole books devoted to advice on how to write a scene. I’m not going to pretend to know everything nor claim that I know better. What I want to do

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Overwritten manuscripts: how to fix—PART 3

03/23/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 248 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, critique groups, overwriting, rick taubold, wordiness

From Rick: In Part 2, I talked about two ways in which writers may overwrite: —unnecessary use of characters’ names —repeated words and phrases In this last part I’ll finish up this series by talking about three other ways writers

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Overwritten manuscripts: how to fix—PART 2

03/10/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 173 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, fiction writing, good writing techniques, overwriting, rick taubold, wordiness

From Rick: Last time, I pointed out several ways in which writers overwrite their stories and novels: —unnecessary dialogue tags —wordiness in general —unnecessary repetition of information To that list I want to add: —unnecessary use of characters’ names —repeated

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Overwritten: a surfeit of words—PART 1

03/03/202003/22/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 228 Views 1 Comment fiction writing, good writing techniques, overwriting, rick taubold, wordiness

From Rick: Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” is famous both for its typical Twain humor and for Twain’s rules for good writing. I’ve mentioned this essay before. You can do a Google search for it, or you can

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Indie publishing: Are you doing it wrong?—Part One

01/13/202001/14/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 190 Views 0 Comments rick taubold, self-publishing mistakes

From Rick: In late 2007, with the advent of Kindle Direct Publishing, the self-publishing landscape forever changed. Many authors embraced this new publishing world and grew with it as it has changed over the years since. Some have been slow

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How do you start writing a novel?

01/22/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 131 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, novel writing techniques, rick taubold

From Rick: One of the questions I hear from time to time, and which I heard recently, goes something like this: “I have this idea for a novel. I know what I want to say, but I don’t know how

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Dealing with story details and description—Part 2

01/14/201904/05/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 181 Views 0 Comments description, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, story details

From Rick: Do you interrupt your story with description? Scott and I have dealt with the topic of description several times in 2015 and more recently in Part of this two-part series back in September 2018. Click on DESCRIPTION in

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Some thoughts on getting unstuck in your writing

10/15/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 118 Views 0 Comments overcoming writer's block, rick taubold, story outlining, writer's block

From Rick: We’ve all heard the term “writer’s block” to mean being unable to write. It usually ranges from not being able to come up with any ideas at all to not being able to move forward on a particular

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