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Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating Prejudice in Fantasy
In honor of the super-exclusive offer for Men with Pens readers only in regards on the Gamer Lifestyle Course, we’re turning our attention in this latter half of the special fiction week towards how to write realistically in fantasy worlds. If you&...
Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Plot
If you’re one of those people who writes copy for a living in order to make enough money to support your fiction writing endeavors, then this series is for you. This week, Men with Pens offers a full six days of posts, each on writing fiction and b...
Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Setting
If you’re one of those people who writes articles or ebooks or website copy for a living in order to make enough money to do the other kind of writing – yes, fiction – then this series is for you. We’re offering a full week (yes,...
Special Fiction Writing Week: Creating a Character
If you’re one of those people who writes articles, ebooks or website copy for a living in order to make enough money to do the other kind of writing – yes, we mean fiction writing – then this week’s special daily post series is fo...
Does Your Fiction Novel Have a Theme?
Today’s guest post is from Larry Brooks, the bestselling novelist talking novel over at Storyfix. We hope you enjoy his next installment in his guest series for fiction writers. For an extra boost of fiction advice and tips, check out our othe...
Are You a Pantser or a Plotter?
Larry Brooks, the bestselling novelist over at Storyfix, brings us more wise words in the next installment of his guest series for fiction writers. For an extra boost of fiction advice and tips, check out our other posts on fiction writing, too. As s...
Three Key Questions to Ramp Up Your Story’s Mojo
Lately, we’ve been running a series on fiction offered to us by our good friend and bestselling novelist Larry Brooks. Click here to read Larry’s first post, Five Things You Need to Know to Write a Novel, click here to read his second po...
Five Things You Absolutely Need to Know Before You Write a Novel
We like to cater to the desires of all types of writers, from fiction to copywriting. (Check out our posts on fiction writing here.) So when Larry Brooks, an old friend, an ex pro baseball player and most importantly a bestselling novelist, offered ...
Do You Feed Your Muse Well?
Writers are typically desperate to find inspiration. They seek creativity like a desert cries for rain. They quest for the perfect undiscovered angle, turning over ideas like a grub-hunter turns over stones. I know this to be true, because my life is...
Fiction Writing: Don’t Touch My Character!
Fiction writers care deeply about the characters they bring to life. They think up personalities, quirks and flaws, they romanticize the image, and then they allow the vision of their character to pour forth in words. As writers, we all want characte...
Create Fantastic Characters for the NaNoWriMo Challenge
Are you planning taking the NaNoWriMo challenge? Then you need to have good characters – and we can help. Why Characters Matter So Much Characters make every story worth reading. Without characters, your readers can’t relate to anyone and you...
