Month: April 2016
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BIND Release in the UK
UK friends and family! Keep your eyes open! Bind will be on the shelves beginning 5th of May! Pick up your copy when you’re at Asda! WOOOOOO
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What’s Your Point of View? And Why it Matters
By Sierra Cartwright Point of view is essentially the position of story’s narrator. (Or narrators.) Today’s fiction is most often told from either first-person or third-person point of view. The advantage of third person is that you can tell the story from many viewpoints. But beware, switching in the same scene can lead to distracting…
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Handout for the RT Booklovers Convention 2016
The Sensational Seven Writing Tips by Sierra Cartwright PDF 2 MB – opens new window A Party for book lovers! Book fair, workshops, mingle with over 800 authors including Sierra Cartwright, and enjoy lots of free books. RT Event Schedule – Times and places you can catch Sierra Thursday, 04/14 Sound Bites Panel (Tropical…
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Crafting a Compelling Story
By Sierra Cartwright Do: Show, rather than tell Aim for potato chip endings Create interesting, flawed characters Choose your POV character carefully Consider who has the most at stake in a scene Master deep POV Watch for: Adverbs Exclamation marks Overreliance on italics Improbable simultaneous reaction Wandering body parts Redundancy Filter words Misplaced…