Happy Writing
Stéphane @ Happy WritingHappy writing for serious writers. Craft analysis and honest psychology to support the ambitious stories you're writing alongside a full life. Developmental editor for literary, upmarket, and speculative fiction. Five years into my own debut.
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You Write So Well! Your Story Is Still Not Working Though.
This is for the writers who know they are good at writing.
You’ve been told but you don’t need to be: you can feel it, the way your sentences cut cleanly through the air when you read them out loud.
The problem is the story.
You can s...
Craft Dissections #1: The Art of the Gripping Opening – A Close Reading of Jungle House
The most important part of a story is not its climax, but its beginning.
Yes, your plot twist should be unforgettable, but if a reader isn’t hooked by the first pages they will never read long enough to find it out.
When I am on a tight...
Getting a Book Deal Probably Won't Cure Your Imposter Syndrome
“Every time I finish a book, I think: uh-oh. They’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.”
Said Maya Angelou after eleven books.
If even one of the most decorated writers of her generatio...
7 Signs You're a Real Writer
1. You often feel like this:
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
If this rings true to you, know you are of the s...
3 Tarot-Based Writing Exercises For Character Development
My not-so-strong suit as a writer (one of) is coming up with character goals and motivation, especially at the scene level.
I’m the kind to take the “trust your reader” advice too far and leave everything unsaid.
For a long while when I...
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