The first piece of advice I received on this topic was from my Screenwriting 101 teacher. He taught that scenes are camera cuts where the setting or time changes, and chapters are like sections of...
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If you're in the process of formatting your novel for submission to a publisher or editor, or in preparation for self-publication, you might be stuck on the spacing. To double-space or...
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” —Stephen King It's impossible to overestimate the power of reading. But aside from the...
National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, encourages writers to pen 50,000 words in 30 days. It's a challenging task, but one that people all around the world complete each year. Winning doesn't...
Getting started on a novel can be the hardest step. Writers the world over have often debated the best way to embark on a new literary endeavour. The novel-writing process tends to follow one of...
That and which are so similar to each other, it’s tricky to know which one to use. It’s one of those grammatical situations where we know there’s a right way to it, we just don’t know what...