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New Year’s Resolution – A Short Story

A little while ago, sometime around 1988-1989, I wrote a quaint little New Year’s Eve themed short story– then promptly showed it to like three people before squirreling it away.  Well, I guess it’s time to dust it off, so without further ado I now present “New Year’s Resolution”.   A clinking of glass sounded …

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Writing Tips: What Is The Right Length For A Story

A question that has come up in many discussion groups is, how long should a story be? Some stories barely breach the definition of a novel at 80,000 words while others could challenge Harry Potter for sheer heft. So then, what Is the right length? The short answer is that a story is only as …

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Writing Tips: Passion In Your Writing

No matter what type of story, book, genre, or subject you wish to write about, be it short story, epic series, or self-help book, above and beyond ALL other good tips for writing, there is one piece of advice that rules them all, and that is Passion. You MUST have passion in your writing. So, …

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Mark’s 10 (11) Tips For Story Writing

I finally found the file I’d created from whence I got these tips from, so rather than piecemeal them, here’s the whole list at once. Then in later posts I’ll get into some specifics for fantasy and SF worlds. These are my 10 basic tips for writing a good story. Be it novel or short …

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