How Not to Start Your Book
Note: The following scenario is extremely dramatized but nonetheless accurate. I have seen all of these mistakes in books on Wattpad...
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Flashbacks, Time Jumps, and Interludes
Time Jumps A time jump is any time during a novel where the author decides not to describe a certain period of time due to lack of...
Tenses and Points of View
Tenses The most distracting mistake an author can make is probably a tense mistake. If you write "Bob crossed the room and bought a...
How Much Description is too Much Description?
Description is one of the biggest problems new authors struggle with. Knowing how much description to use and when to include it (or...
Dialogue and Punctuation Basics
I've had several people ask me for writing feedback on Wattpad, and some of the same questions kept coming up over and over again, so...
Invisibility at a Glance
Do you wish you could avoid the boss who keeps bringing up an impending deadline? Do you wish you could be the master of hide-and-seek or...
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, No... It’s Flights of Fantasy!
Mankind has always looked to the skies to go higher and higher, from skyscrapers to planes and even space shuttles that reach beyond our...
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