Wrting Tips

Writing Fight Scenes

You are creating this manuscript, you are giddy to get to a fight scene you imagined would be perfect for your book, then you read it, and… it feels clunky. Slowed pace. Forced. Boring. What happened? There is a lot to go through with fight scenes. Before diving into it verify your plot. Check the […]

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Beta Readers

When I first started writing this was one of the words that made me nervous. Why? Well, you hear a lot of things about people taking credit for other’s stories. You feel like people are dipping themselves into your privates. You… you… The truth is I was wrong on this. Even though it is true

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Editing your book

Editing. This is the part. This is the… is the time where you feel you are trapped in a Stephen King novel. I mean there are people that do love editing. Others drink a lot or cry themselves to sleep. What is editing? Editing is where you proofread, correct things like grammar, punctuation spelling, or

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Book Synopsis

Hello future writers. Hope you guys are doing swell. Let’s talk a bit about the book synopsis. A quick thing. Synopsis, pitch, summary are all different but mostly do the same thing. When you do a pitch you try to tell the whole story in one sentence, two tops. The synopsis is when you put

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The Breaking Point

Have you ever read a story and felt so good when the climax arrives and the protagonists overcome the antagonist? The MC gets the payoff it deserves? Well, that is probably because you passed through a part in the story you maybe didn’t notice that much. Usually, when you submerge in a story you go

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Believable Characters

If it wasn’t for believable characters, why would you be reading a story? Well, unless it was a How-To? History. Okay, okay, there are so many books without characters. In fiction, when you build your story, you want to be able to have characters that truly connect with audiences, and/or at least that they can

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Interruptions

Sadly this is real. Unfortunately, I think this is one of the things that kill creative work. Either you get distracted by having social media close by. You get a call. Text. Work. In most cases family. There’s always something going on with families, and it is frustrating. Just imagine writing an intense scene, getting

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