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7 Tips on Drafting and Revising Your Story

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Always research details of your fiction story
Use parentheses and keep going 
A finished draft beats a perfect draft 
Revising is my friend 
Editing tip: Don’t worry about being satisfied 
Common 'first draft-itis' symptoms to look for 
How to finally finish that book you're writing
• BONUS: “Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.” 

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5 Great Quotations about ‘Why Write?’

“To write 00000000000000000vvis to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.” - Gertrude Stein

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” - Francoise Sagan

“I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.” - Anne Tyler

“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.” - Sylvia Plath

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.” - Beverly Cleary

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"Your writing is a textual painting of the world." - Rob Bignell

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Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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5 Elements of an Infographic

5 Elements of an Infographic

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"Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision." - Terry Brooks

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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered." - Horace

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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump." - Christopher Morley

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7 Deceptively Simple Plot Techniques for Writers

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Consider using counterplotting in your novel
Avoid dead narrator plot gimmick in story
Use journaling to develop plots for stories
Questions to ask yourself when plotting a story
Use bridge to transition from flashback to present
Plot story using dramatic throughlines
Reorient your story’s plot by shadow staging
• BONUS: “Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.” - Ivana Trump 

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5 Great Quotations about Books

“Each age, 000000000000000000ww it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A book is simply the container of an idea – like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.” - Angela Carter

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.” - Tahereh Mafi

“Books are the carriers of civilization...” - Barbara Tuchman

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"Before you can write anything, you have to notice something." - John Irving

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