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Putting "Sizzling Synopsis" Tips into Practice
What to LEAVE OUT to create a slick and scintillating summary
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Angela Volkov

July 2022

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

June 2022

Exploit the Psychology of Your Reader
A guide to writing transportive and engaging fiction
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Angela Volkov
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May 2022

A Killer Book Hangover
When escapism goes terribly right
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Angela Volkov

January 2022

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

November 2021

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
Getting S.O.R.T.E.D & Sorting Out Psychological Complexes
Structuring my first non-fiction book; making my way through "How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy" by Orson Scott Card and various self-imposed…
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Angela Volkov
Banal but Relatable, Why your Instagram Poetry Sucks
Everything wrong with Instagram “poems” and “poets”
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Angela Volkov
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August 2021

How to Write Compelling Characters
A guide to creating realistic and sympathetic characters according to the wisdom of dramatist Lajos Egri
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Angela Volkov
Your Work-in-Progress in Five Words
Never get stuck again knowing "premise" is the heart and roadmap of your story
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Angela Volkov
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