The Dreaded and Amazing: “Show, Don’t Tell”
Gone are the days when most readers were comfortable with a narrator telling them everything they needed to know.
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Tyler Kelley
Mar 12, 20216 min
The Importance of Having a Good Hook
The hook can be a single sentence or a single scene. It really doesn’t matter as long as it’s attention-grabbing and comes at the beginning
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Tyler Kelley
Feb 19, 20214 min
Planner, Pantser, or Plantser,
Chances are you have come across the terms planner and pantser a couple of times. But what do they mean?
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Tyler Kelley
Feb 12, 202110 min
How to Write Romance, Sort Of
Romance is repeatedly one of the top-selling genres year after year and regularly brings in over a billion dollars.
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Tyler Kelley
Jan 22, 20215 min
How to Shut Up Your Inner Editor
Should you start with dialogue, a description of the scene, or some inner monologue from your main character? You can’t decide.
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Tyler Kelley
Jan 15, 20215 min
The Three-Act Structure of the Year
In order to get a better understanding of the three-act structure, we can apply the concept to the year and its season.
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Tyler Kelley
Jan 1, 20219 min
We All Have to Start Somewhere
It takes time and effort to get from a first draft to a published piece of work. The amazing things we’ve read over the years weren’t....
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Tyler Kelley
Dec 25, 20203 min
How to Give Praise
Let’s be honest, it shouldn’t be. Giving someone praise should be as simple as: “Hey, I like this. You did a good job. Please make more.”
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Tyler Kelley
Dec 18, 20205 min
Tips for Being a Better Writer
If you aren’t doing the following, then you are slowing down and hindering your own progress.
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Tyler Kelley
Dec 11, 20207 min
The Basics of Punctuation
Punctuation marks are incredibly useful because they help clarify sentences by separating the different parts of the sentence.
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Tyler Kelley
Dec 4, 20204 min
Description Practice: Winter Mountains
While winter isn’t officially here, its grip can be felt far more than it could last time when most things were still green.
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Tyler Kelley
Nov 27, 202011 min
My Experience with Writers' Groups
One of my fondest memories of my writers' group was having a conversation with someone about my book, and that person they knew it as well..
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Tyler Kelley
Nov 20, 20205 min
What to Expect from a Writers Group
The idea of joining a writers group can be intimidating. You don’t know what to expect and if the group is really into editing, then their..
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Tyler Kelley
Nov 13, 20204 min
The Importance of Having a Writing Buddy
This isolation works really well in helping us get stuff done. However, it also can get pretty lonely. Everyone needs a writing buddy.
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Tyler Kelley
Nov 6, 20204 min
How to Take Praise
Praise is something that everyone wants to receive, especially when they have put a lot of hard work and time into a project.
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Tyler Kelley
Oct 23, 20204 min
What Is NaNoWriMo?
Life can get extremely busy and tiresome, which makes setting aside time to write difficult. That is where NaNoWriMo comes in to help.
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Tyler Kelley
Oct 16, 20205 min
How to Deal with Criticism
As writers, we are always faced with criticism. This is especially difficult to deal with when you put so much effort into creating somethin
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Tyler Kelley
Oct 9, 20205 min
What Do You Use to Write?
Writing can require different tools. Some are pretty necessary, while others are less important.
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Tyler Kelley
Oct 2, 20203 min
Writing Wednesdays Announcement
The best part about writing prompts is that they don’t have to be perfect, unlike our primary projects.
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Tyler Kelley
Sep 25, 20206 min
The Story Beats
The format itself was created by screenwriter Blake Snyder in 2005 with the idea of helping screenwriters structure their scripts.
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