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How Rowling Hooked Us on Page One: Four Simple but Powerful Writing Techniques
Agents and editors get overwhelming amounts of unsolicited manuscripts every day. Give them just one excuse to dump yours into the rejection pile and they’ll take it. How did Rowling beat the odds and...
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Four Warning Signs That Your Prologue Isn’t Worth Its Weight (and How Rowling...
If there’s a prologue in your manuscript, be aware that interested agents and editors will most likely try to talk you out of it. Prologues are out of vogue. They’re seen as cumbersome beasts that only...
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How Rowling Became a Master of Creating Suspense (Pacing in Harry Potter, Pt I)
The surest way to write a commercially successful book is to write a suspenseful book. Suspense isn’t just for thrillers or horror stories; suspense actually has nothing to do with a book’s genre. Here...
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Keep Your Readers on the Hook
Eight out of ten people will read your headline but only two out of those ten will go on to read the rest. That means you lost 60% of your readers right out of the gate, and all because of a badly...
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