5 Tips to Keep You from Being Overwhelmed
For Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive. Today’s post is from 5 Writer Goals to…
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First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Selection
Each week, we’ve been taking a look at the first page of best-selling novels of various genres and seeing how…
How Writers Can Bring Setting to Life through Personification
Today’s post is by Becca Puglisi. Settings can be tricky for authors. In our desire to firmly ground readers in…
The Key to Creating Believable Plots and Subplots
On Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with our exploration on…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Support and Defend
I promised you last week that I’d give you a much better, stronger first page, and so I jumped at…
A Look at the Second Pinch Point in Stories
Last week we took a look at the first pinch point—that moment in your story that comes after the hero’s…
6 Actions to Correct Negative Thought Patterns
Today’s post is by author and story coach Chris Pearson: “I’m not good enough.” “I can’t do this.” “No one…
Why Authors Need to Know about Book Sales Cycles
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at an excerpt from The Cycles of Book Sales by Anthony Wessel, a book industry veteran and…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Avenue of Mysteries
I chose one of John Irving’s novels—Avenue of Mysteries—to examine in this week’s look at first pages. I read a…
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