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Writing advice: Who should you listen to?

05/24/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 355 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, choosing from writing advice, fiction writing, good and bad writing advice, good writing techniques, rick taubold

From Rick: Here’s the problem: Advice on writing is easy to come by, but who should you listen to for the most reliable advice? What do you do when the advice is contradictory? —Should you listen to the bestselling authors

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Writing tips from the pros

12/14/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 360 Views 0 Comments editing tips, good writing techniques, rick taubold, writing tips from pros

From Rick: Back in May of 2019, I did a post called “Tips from the experts” wherein I pulled out what I considered the best advice and provided a link to the full article I quoted from. Here’s the link

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Story flaws: Finding and fixing them—PART 2

10/26/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 307 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 446 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 581 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 601 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 503 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 569 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 479 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 373 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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