Aug 27 2008
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Cadet Davis reviews and revises the titles of 30 manuscripts submitted to a writing workshop. This will help you evaluate and improve your titles.
Aug 08 2008
This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
Aug 05 2008
Mary Sues are characters that are self-insertions of the author. This article will help you identify and correct Mary Sues.
Aug 01 2008
This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
Jul 22 2008
This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
Jul 21 2008
This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
Jul 17 2008
Cadet Davis reviews another 40 titles of manuscripts submitted to an online workshop. This will help you determine whether your title is effective and how you might rewrite it.
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Jul 03 2008
Like The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam, we’ve written a list of questions to help you identify problems with your writing. Continue Reading »
Jul 03 2008
Sword-and-spell fantasy is a genre that attracts many prospective writers, which is good. Unfortunately, many of those authors are unpolished. Fortunately, there is an author’s test that will help fantasy authors diagnose some of the most common problems in their book. I find the following list of plot elements particularly useful:
Jul 01 2008
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Jun 26 2008
This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
This article is a sequel to “Five Mistakes of First-Time Novelists,” which you can read here.
Jun 25 2008
This short article will help beginning novel-writers avoid five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.