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Merry Goodman on Using Real-Life Experiences to Come Up With Story Ideas

Merry Goodman on Using Real-Life Experiences to Come Up With Story Ideas

Ever wonder how to come up with story ideas? Ask any writer and invariably they will tell you “life.”

A writer’s greatest source of ideas comes from their real-life experiences. From going to the grocery store to careening down a snowy mountain, real life is every writer’s inspiration. You just need to look and you’ll find a story.

Can The Write Practice Help You Get Published? 19 Books Our Community Published in 2019

Can The Write Practice Help You Get Published? 19 Books Our Community Published in 2019

Since 2011, we’ve been helping writers publish their books and accomplish their writing goals. We’ve worked with thousands of writers through our community and courses. But this year, we wanted to take a step back and ask, is what we’re doing actually making a difference? Are we actually helping writers achieve their dreams?

And so we went back to our students and asked, what did you accomplish in 2019? What books did you publish, and what role did The Write Practice play in helping you?

The responses were inspiring. Here’s what our authors have published in the last year.

What Is the Best Grammar Checker?

What Is the Best Grammar Checker?

As a writer, a good proofreading software is the Robin to your Batman. How else will you know when you’ve used a semicolon in the right spot?

There are so many options out there for proofreading tools, it can be hard to keep track of what you should use. Sure, there are some free options available and they pick up the basics, but if they were good enough for writers, the premium options wouldn’t exist. In this article, I’ll compare four top options so you can find the one that’s best for you.

Evelyn Puerto on How to Write Great Dialogue in a Story

Evelyn Puerto on How to Write Great Dialogue in a Story

Writing dialogue boils down to one big rule: Make it sound realistic.

You not only communicate every day (unless you’re on a really heavy writing binge), but you hear other people communicating. Dialogue is all around us. Constantly. Sometimes too constantly. The TV blares it. Your favorite novel is full of it. Your family squawks it over dinner.

Inherently, you know how to write dialogue. Sometimes you just have to get out of your own way in order to get it on paper.

How to Make a Character Take a Stand: Hamody Jasim

How to Make a Character Take a Stand: Hamody Jasim

What do your characters believe in so strongly, they’re willing to die for it? What are you willing to die for?

For most of us, this isn’t a question we’re faced with every day. But Hamody Jasim was in his teens when he realized that fighting for what he believed probably meant dying for it—and he chose to enter the fight anyway. In this episode of Character Test, I talk with Hamody about some of the highest-stakes choices of his life and how he came to make them.

How to Build Tension in a Scene: 3 Nail-Biting Ways

How to Build Tension in a Scene: 3 Nail-Biting Ways

Great fiction is built around tension. The bad news is, we experience tension in our own lives every day. The good news is, it’s great fuel for our stories. The question is, how do you create that experience for your readers by building tension in your scenes?

Gayle Woodson on Why Hybrid Publishing Might Be Right For You

Gayle Woodson on Why Hybrid Publishing Might Be Right For You

The point of writing, for most people, is to share that writing with the world. The problem is getting your writing into the hands of readers can be such an intimidating and confusing process that a lot of writers simply give up. This month’s interviewee talks about one option for sharing your writing: working with hybrid publishers.

5 Ways to Ruin Your Creative Writing

5 Ways to Ruin Your Creative Writing

Consider this: as writers, we employ words.

We harness their power and send them out to do a job. So, just like any productive employer, we must choose our operatives effectively and manage them well.

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the ways words can fail and how to avoid that.

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