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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Month: April 2016
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 head-hopping.
First person works in a number of genres, but it limits you to a single viewpoint for each story. Some authors write dual-first person POV, but...
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Handout for the RT Booklovers Convention 2016
The Sensational Seven Writing Tips
by Sierra Cartwright
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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 E) - 1:30-2:30
Club RT 2:45 & 3:15
Friday, 04/15
Cirque Du Punk (Pavilion 9)- 9:30pm - 12:00am
Saturday, 04/16
Book Fair (Pavilion Ballroom) - 10:30 - 2pm
Sunday, 04/1...
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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 modifiers
Clichés
Common plot devices to avoid:
Overheard conversations
Beginning a book in motion—meaning in an aut...
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Sierra Cartwright’s Indispensable Writing Books For Authors
These are the books that are always on my bookshelf. When I move, they’re the last books to get packed and the first ones to get unpacked!
Techniques of a Selling Writer by Dwight Swain.
I’ve carried this book everywhere for twenty years or more. The section on Scene and Sequel transformed my writing and helped me figure out point of view. Understanding what goes into a sequel, in a way that is not an info dump, is transformative.
This little book holds an astounding amount of informa...
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