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The Mirror Moment: Why You Should Start Your Novel from the Middle
A summary of James Scott Bell’s #1 Amazon bestselling writing book. How writing one brief monologue will launch your entire novel.
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Angela Volkov
Exploit the Psychology of Your Reader
A guide to writing transportive and engaging fiction
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Angela Volkov
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A Killer Book Hangover
When escapism goes terribly right
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Angela Volkov
On Reading 'The Prince' and Vowing to Use Fewer Run-on Sentences
Will reading "The Prince" help me avoid pitfalls in my own writing, and, more importantly, will I finally figure out what went wrong when I played…
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Angela Volkov
Beautiful and Reactive: On Poorly Written Fictional Female Characters
Almost sounds like I'm talking about an element off the periodic table: let's call it poorlywrittenum
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Angela Volkov
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A Cold-Blooded Way to Kill Your Darlings
On identifying sentences that don’t serve you well
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Angela Volkov
A Flawed Model of the World
How to mould a believable psyche by determining your protagonist’s most protected, irrational belief. Lessons from Will Storr's "The Science of…
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Angela Volkov
Writing Foetus
Documenting my writing journey. Working on my first non-fiction book at the moment 'Psychology for World Domination' featuring real citations but outlandish suggestions on how to get ahead in life.
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