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Fear-based decision making and writers

07/19/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 407 Views 0 Comments fiction writing, indie publishing, Kristine Rusch;fear-based decision making, publishing news, rick taubold, self-publishing, traditional publishing

From Rick: I’ve been incredibly remiss lately in posting to the blog. It’s been five weeks since the last post. I’ve been focusing on what a writer should focus on: his own writing, and I have several projects ongoing. It’s

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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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Analyzing your story, Part-3: Your story’s logic

02/01/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 307 Views 0 Comments analyzing your story, fiction writing, good writing techniques, story logic

From Rick: Story logic comes from two sources: external and internal. Both are equally important. Let’s first define what I mean by each. External logic deals with how pieces of information, such as historical and scientific facts that relate to

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Analyzing your story, PART-2: Keeping your reader in the loop

01/11/202101/25/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 328 Views 0 Comments analyzing your story, fiction writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold

In PART-1 I looked at your story’s purpose, focusing on what you, the writer, want to convey to your reader and what you want your reader to think about. I maintain that every good story does this. Perhaps the most

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Analyzing your story, PART-1: Your story’s purpose

01/04/202101/11/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 288 Views 0 Comments analyzing your story, fiction writing, rick taubold, writing effective stories

In the online writing group I’m involved in, one of the members is very good at pointing out story flaws from a reader’s perspective. Over the next few posts, I’m going to delve into these issues with the goal of

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Master the basics of writing (so you won’t look like a total amateur)

12/28/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 337 Views 0 Comments basics of writing, fiction writing, good writing techniques, important tips on wiritng basics, rick taubold

From Rick: As readers of this blog know, periodically I like to step up on my soapbox. Before I do, I’d like to categorize the manuscripts I am called upon to read in my various capacities. As editors of an

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Story flaws: Finding and fixing them—PART 2

10/26/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 306 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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Up, down, and -ward words

04/20/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 387 Views 0 Comments adverbs ending in -ward, fiction writing, good writing techniques, phrasal verbs with up & down, rick taubold

Up, down, and -ward words From Rick: NOTICE: The Write Well, Write to Sell blog has MOVED! Please update your bookmarks to: writewell.ricktaubold.com At the old site (writewell.silverpen.org) there will be a forwarding link to the new site that we’ll

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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 568 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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