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General
The Overheard Conversation (writing about eavesdropping 101)
8 Tips to Writing a Believable Friendship or Best Friend Character
5 Tips to Add Depth to Secondary Characters
Overall Novel Structure
The Story Question: Start your story with a question that will keep your reader questioning until the end.
Beginnings
First lines (examples)
Crossover Fiction:
How to write crossover fiction
What is crossover fiction and why is it important (List of book example of crossover fiction)
Romance
5 Tips to Make Your Reader Fall in Love with your Love Interest
Revision
How to Tell if your Writing Sounds Forced
10 Quick Tips to Polishing Your Manuscript
Other
How to Know if You are Ready to Query
How to Make and Keep a Writing Schedule
Limiting Character Quirks and Tics
The Importance of Imagination (round 2)
Submission
Analysis
Overview on my Analysis Process (updated August 2019)
The Analysis: What Works and What Doesn’t
How to Do An Analysis of Your Very Own (Learn to be a Critical Reader)
The Shadow in the North (description)
The Queen of Attolia (characterization)
The Giver (starting the story in the right place)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (the first chapter)
Chersti Nieveen 