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At the 2008 Maui Writers Conference, bestselling thriller writer Steve Berry says there are eight key rules that all writers must know and follow.
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At the 2008 Maui Writers Conference, bestselling thriller writer Gary Braver (Skin Deep) said that dread drives thrillers. You know who the good guys and bad guys are. Dull moments will lose an audience, and writers can't afford to lose an audience, even for one page. To captivate an audience (and agents and publishers), Braver offers these 10 essential ingredients for a successful thriller.
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Having scribed detective novels and written for HBO’s “The Wire,” George Pelecanos knows what it takes to get down and dirty for his own brand of social crime fiction.
by Jordan E. Rosenfeld
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NaNoWriMo’s Chris Baty shares five tips for writing your book in a month.
by Chris Baty
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What this thriving editor is looking for in her new imprint aimed at women.
by Kara Gebhart Uhl
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An aspiring fiction writer realizes her story is better told as a memoir.
by Jordan E. Rosenfeld
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From prose to screenwriting and back again—here’s what short-story writer and novelist Amy Bloom learned from moving between prose writing and the all-show, no-tell world of screenwriting.
by Jordan E. Rosenfeld
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WritersDigest.tv Video Exclusive: Bestselling authors (and friends) Steve Berry, James Rollins and Brad Thor talk about how they quietly began writing each other's characters into their own books, and how quickly fans caught on—much to Berry, Rollins and Thor's surprise.
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How many times have you heard this around the workshop table: “Why don’t you consider a new point of view?” (Actually, the term used more often is “POV” because it sounds a lot cooler, I suspect.) Everyone then agrees that a new POV might help matters, including the writer, who knew something was wrong and is now relieved to have a likely suspect.
by Steve Almond
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I may never win a Pulitzer Prize for any of my novels but I wrote three sentences in 2004 that have garnered me a lot of ink: “Writing is an art. Publishing is a business. And an oft broken business at that.” And like it or not, these days authors are finding it necessary to get involved in the business side—specifically the marketing of their books.
by M.J. Rose
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