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3 Tips For Creating a Great Villain

• How to create an interesting villain for your story
• Develop complex antagonist to maximize conflict 
• Consider employing a deceiver in your plot
• BONUS: "When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book." - Mary Higgins Clark 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

14 Plot Pitfalls You Need to Avoid

• Twist endings
• Telling the backstory
• Cookie cutter story
• Stalling as approaching crucial event
• Packing peanuts 
• Bait-and-switch
• Subjective tension
• Histrionic exit
• Reader cheating
• Inappropriate mystery to create suspense
• Too many subplots
• Literary dream
• Runaround error in story
• Schizophrenic story 
• BONUS: "I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of keeping readers reading." 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

22 Great Tips for Creating an Author's Website

• Build a website to promote your new book
• Decide what website will look like
• Text is king, design is queen
• Web text demands different kind of writing style 
• How to improve your web text's readability
• Pay attention to tone on your author website
• Fresh, original content is vital
• Ensure your website is navigable 
• Pages needed for your website
• Home page 
• What Others are Saying page
• Pay attention to your author's bio pic 
• Interview with the Author Page
• Sample chapter page
• Photo gallery page
• Contact page
• How to promote multiple books on your website
• How to drive traffic to your website
• Increase website visits with strategic SEO
• Add share buttons to your website
• How to put a "buy now" button for your website 
• How to accept credit card purchases on your site
• BONUS: "One should use common words to say uncommon things." - Arthur Schopenhauer  

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

7 Deceptively Simple Plot Techniques for Writers

• 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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4 Great Tips on Outlining Your Story

• Utilize writing process to develop your book 
• Outline your scene when stuck on what to write 
• An outline is the gas that my creativity needs to drive down the writing road. 
• Why you can’t get your outline into words
• BONUS: "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights..." 

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How to Choose Your Story's Setting

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7 Deceptively Simple Plot Techniques for Writers

• Cliffhangers
• Foreshadowing
• Fast forward
• Bridge to transition from flashback to present
• Shadow staging
• Head fake
• Plot coupon
• BONUS: "Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation." - Ann Handley

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How to Create Your Story's Tone

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7 Great Tips to Create Conflict in Your Story

• Focus on conflict in opening lines
• Utilize both internal and external conflicts
• Center on internal flaw for compelling story 
• Use confidant to reveal hero’s inner turmoil
• Develop complex antagonist to maximize conflict
• Deliver thrusts and counterthrusts
• Use man vs. man conflict in story
• BONUS: "Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have." 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.

14 Plot Pitfalls You Need to Avoid

• Twist endings
• Telling the backstory
• Cookie cutter story
• Stalling as approaching crucial event
• Packing peanuts 
• Bait-and-switch
• Subjective tension
• Histrionic exit
• Reader cheating 
• Inappropriate mystery to create suspense
• Too many subplots
• Literary dream 
• Runaround error in story
• Schizophrenic story
• BONUS: "I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways of keeping readers reading." 

Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.