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Fiction writers learn their letters as children like anyone else; then their word vocabulary expands rapidly during their early years in...

You’ll often see in conventional writing advice the maxim that in order to learn how to be a better writer you have to write. It makes...

We’re attempting to establish what you are trying to say through your fiction. The purpose of this is to enhance and expand your work so...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

So you want to boost the ‘quality of form’ in your story? You want to progress towards a three-dimensional, more widely appealing and...

Conventional advice on how to write better fiction dwells on those well-worn items, character and plot. We’re supposed to have ‘fully...

There is probably more than one theme, then, in any piece of any length written by a writer who more or less knows the basics of writing....

Let’s say that you are trying to isolate the themes that your fiction deals with. Two things that might help: 1. It might not be possible...