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Denice penrosedenicepenrose
2025-07-10
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2025-07-10

How to Start Your Nonfiction Book With a Bang

Follow these tips for nonfiction authors to grab readers’ attention — and flow into a narrative that keeps them engaged all the way through.
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Tasarla Romaneytasarlaromaney
2025-07-10

The house was built on secrets.
Now the walls remember everything.

In horror, the past never stays buried—it seeps into the present and whispers what’s to come.

Day 10 is live: The Haunted Past – Using Backstory as Foreshadowing

Learn how to turn family curses, old tragedies, and buried trauma into powerful storytelling tools that build dread from the ground up.

Part of the 20 Days Of Foreshadowing series

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Wendy Van Campwvancamp@me.dm
2025-07-10

ConTinual: Panel Room #200
Beating Writer's Block
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It's the 200th episode of The Panel Room!

Join Alyssa Askani, Jamie Garner, Gini Koch, James Pittman, Fraser Sherman, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III to talk about writer's block, causes, and ways to beat the block!

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Carly Hayward, Editorfromcarly@writing.exchange
2025-07-09

So what is GMC?

Goal, Motivation, & Conflict. Your character’s goal is what they want in life, their motivations are what happened in their past that’s left them with a lack of something, and the conflicts are what gets in their way.

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Tasarla Romaneytasarlaromaney
2025-07-09

The shadow moved. But nothing cast it.

That was the first warning.

In horror, light and darkness don’t just set the mood—they tell the story before it’s spoken.

Today’s post explores how to use lighting, shadow, and visual contrast to foreshadow dread long before the monster arrives.

Day 9 is live:Shadow Play – Foreshadowing Through Lighting and Darkness

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Nicole Myersastridsdreamspace
2025-07-09

You don’t need to sound like a robot to write like a pro. These covert tips help your posts get found without sacrificing your voice.

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The Novelrythenovelry
2025-07-08

📝 New on the blog The 5 Ps of Writing: Plot | The Blog | The Novelry: What is the plot of a story? We look at how plot influences your novel and give our top tips on the key plot elements that make for an unputdownable story. thenovelry.com/blog/the-5-ps-p thenovelry.com ✍️

Tasarla Romaneytasarlaromaney
2025-07-08

RITERS: Are your characters warning readers without realizing it?

Day 8 of our horror writing series dives into how subtle dialogue can foreshadow terror before anything happens on the page.

Read it now: “Don’t Go in There”
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2025-07-07

Use the 4 Cs of Writing (But Only If You Want Readers to Understand You)

Master this self-check to guarantee more readers embrace your content Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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