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Find Your Story's Theme in 5 Questions
A worksheet to help you put your theme into one sentence
Your theme is the most important part of your story. Not because you need to be able to explain it in one clever sentence, but because theme is what gives everything else in your nov...
I tested out how using AI could positively affect my content creation work. Here’s the verdict.
I tested exactly what AI could and couldn’t do for my work. Here’s what surprised me, what I’ll keep using, and where I still draw the line. (My life as a young writer, August 17th - 28th)
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Stop Trying to Make Your Stories Relatable
Let’s get one thing straight.
We’re writing for others.
As writers, even if we’re writing the story we always wanted to read, we are writing it in hopes that others will read it as well.
So why am I telling you not to chase relatability?...
3 Writing Tips I Would Give My High School Self
The number of teen writers out there is amazing. When I was thirteen, having just finished my first “story” (meaning that it was about 30,000 words and as disproportionate as a t-rex), I had no idea that there were so many teens like me tha...
Is your book built around a theme? (If not, it should be)
Has anyone ever tried to ask you what your book is about, and then you can’t figure out how to answer them? All that comes to mind is your characters, or the place they live, or the really bad thing that happens at the end (but you can’t sa...
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