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Dealing with story details and description—Part 2

01/14/201904/05/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 511 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

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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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Dealing with story details and description—Part 1

09/10/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 490 Views 0 Comments description, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, story details

From Rick: From time to time the question arises from writers about how much detail and description to add to a story and how and when to insert it. This important topic is going to take at least two posts

Novel writing

Some thoughts on outlining

08/06/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 453 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, novel writing, outlining, pantsing, rick taubold, story details

From Rick: When it comes to writing, there are two basic approaches one can take: outlining, and writing by the seat of your pants, often called “pantsing.” I’ve written both ways, and I have known other writers who have done

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Style sheets revisited: how to avoid editing nightmares

07/17/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 406 Views 0 Comments editing techniques, editing tips, good writing techniques, rick taubold, self-editing, style sheets

From Rick: I apologize for not posting a blog last week (and for being late this week). Things got a little crazy time-wise, and they will continue to be so for the next couple of months at least. I have

Action scenes Novel writing

Actions Scenes—PART 2: In finer detail

05/21/201805/21/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 420 Views 0 Comments fiction writing, fight scenes, novel writing, scott gamboe, story details, Tags: action scenes, writing action scenes

From Scott: Last time, I talked in general terms about some of the perils and pitfalls of writing a good action scene. But I also promised you that I would go into greater detail. How would your character react in

Endings Novel writing

The challenge of writing a good story ending

03/12/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 419 Views 0 Comments fiction writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, story endings

From Rick: A few months back I talked about the importance of having a strong ending. THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG ENDING Writing a good, strong ending can be a challenge, but as I pointed out in the previous blog

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Putting sex and sex scenes in your story

12/18/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 345 Views fiction writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, sex scenes

From Rick: First off, this is not an R-rated post. I’m not going to be discussing anything explicit, just giving advice on when—and if—you should include sex or references to sex in your story or novel. This is also going

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Avoiding info dumps

11/14/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 453 Views good writing techniques, info dumps in writing, novel writing, rick taubold, story hook, story openings

From Rick: This week I figured I’d change things up a bit and get away from the doom and gloom about publishing challenges, although I don’t think those challenges will be going away anytime soon. The best advice I can

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The genre trap: classifying your book

10/23/201710/23/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 369 Views genre classification, novel writing, rick taubold, self-publishing, traditional publishing

From Rick: Recently I’ve had several questions regarding how to figure out how to classify a book genre-wise. Some of these questions have dealt with the differences between biographies and historical fiction as well as some interesting misconceptions when it