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Writing Techniques Writing a Web of Lies

Author Afsheen Farhadi shares how fiction writers are often searching for the truth but sometimes write a web of lies to get there.

Afsheen Farhadi

Writing Techniques The Importance of Wonder in Storytelling Sophie Chen Keller

Writing Habits and Practices Crow Games and Storm Petrel Dreams: How Working as an Ecologist Made Me a Better Fiction Writer Stacy Carlson

Writing Techniques Why Doctors Write Fiction: Medicine Runs on Stories—and Sometimes Only a Story Can Tell the Truth Shantanu Rai

Mystery/Thriller What Writing Mysteries Taught Me About Fiction Writing Susan Breen

Writing Habits and Practices Finding Freedom in Fiction Writing Jean Trounstine

Writing Techniques From the Practical to the Mystic: 7 Tips for Writing Historical Fiction Erika Robuck

Writing Techniques Dallie Ago: Write Like Nobody Will Read Your Work Robert Lee Brewer

Writing Goal The Importance of Small Details in Fiction Writing Mark Spencer

Write Better Fiction Writing Characters From the Opposite Gender’s Point of View Richard Alther

Publishing Insights 5 Things Being a Journalist Taught Me About Writing Fiction Michael J. Martinez

There Are No Rules Blog by the Editors of Writer's Digest Turning Truth Into Fiction: 8 Tips Audrey Stallsmith

Writing Your First Draft 10 Ways To Hook Your Reader (and Reel Them in for Good)Ann Garvin

Writing Your First Draft 7 Things That Will Doom Your Novel (& How to Avoid Them)James Scott Bell

Write Better Fiction 11 Secrets to Writing an Effective Character Description Rebecca McClanahan

There Are No Rules Blog by the Editors of Writer's Digest 10 Writing Techniques from Bram Stoker’s Dracula Rachel Scheller

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