How to Write a Good Story

By JoyCronje

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This book is a collection of resources and random tips that will help you become a better writer and create s... More

Body Language (I)
Body Language (II)
Body Language (III)
Body Langauge (IIII)
Advice from Cliff Pickover (I)
Advice from Cliff Pickover (II)
Advice from Cliff Pickover (III)
Advice from Cliff Pickover (IIII)
Donna Ippolito
Dialogue: The Music of Speech (I)
Dialogue: The Music of Speech (II)
Dialogue: The Music of Speech (III)
Dialogue: The Music of Speech (IIII)
Elizabeth Sims
7 Ways to Make a Good Story Great (I)
7 Ways to Make a Good Story Great (II)
7 Ways to Make a Good Story Great (III)
Fixing Common Plot Problems (I)
Fixing Common Plot Problems (II)
Fixing Common Plot Problems (III)
Fixing Common Plot Problems (IIII)
Interlude: Joy on writing a good story
Using the Reverse Dictionary
'Ly' Adverbs (I)
'Ly' Adverbs (II)
'Ly' Adverbs (III)
Ernest Hemingway's app and advice (I)
Ernest Hemingway App and Advice (II)
Ernest Hemingway App and Advice (III)
Omniscient Narrator & Third Person Voice (II)
Omniscient Narrator & Third Person Voice (III)
Interlude: Fun stuff (I)
Interlude: Fun stuff (II)
Randy Ingermanson: the Snowflake Method (I)
the Snowflake Method (II)
the Snowflake Method (III)
the Snowflake Method (IIII)
Gayle Moran on Points of View in Writing
Points of View in Writing (II)
Naming your Characters
Interlude: Joy on Plotting and Characters (I)
Interlude: Joy on Plotting and Characters (II)
Writing From more than one Point of View
Writing from More than One Point of View (II)
Janice Hardy on Multiple Point of View Characters
Jody Hedlund: 7 POV Tips -Avoid being Branded as an Amateur
Words To Describe a Character's Voice
Fictional vs Real Settings for your Story
Janice Hardy: 10 Questions to Ask when Choosing a Setting (I)
10 Questions to Ask when Choosing a Setting (II)
Randall S Hansen: Expanding Your Vocabulary (I)
Expanding Your Vocabulary (II)
Amanda Patterson: Guaranteed ways to bore your reader
Richard Nordquist: 200 Common Redundancies (I)
Common redundancies (II)
200 Common Redundancies (III)
Eight Ways to Strengthen your Prose
Leo Babauta: 31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing
31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing (II)
Interlude: Joy on overcoming writer's block
ProofEditWrite.com: Avoid Clichés
Avoid Clichés (II)
Words to Describe a Room
David Mesick: Three Things that will Make your Characters Deeper
SaidSimple: When To Start A New Paragraph
Rachelle Gardner: How to cut Thousands of Words without Shedding a Tear
Passed or Past? (grammarmonster.com)
Bare vs. Bear
Chuck Wendig: 25 Things a Great Character Needs
HOW TO PLOT A STORY
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
Grammar Girl & Grammar Party: until, 'til, till, til
Gilliane Berry: The Ten Worst Ways to End a Book
Gary Korisko: How to Write With Confidence
silverpen.org: Grand List of Fantasy Clichés
Chuck Wendig: said or fancy-pants words
When Should We CaPiTaLizE?
Rob Hart: Plot Clichés
Strange Horizons: Stories we've seen too often (I)
Strange Horizons: Stories we've seen too often (II)
Strange Horizons: Horror stories we've seen too often
PunctuationMadeSimple.com
Punctuationmadesimple.com: The Apostrophe

Ellen Brock: Omniscient Narrator & Third Person Voice (I)

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By JoyCronje

Ellen Brock is a full time content, developmental, and line editor at her own company, Keytop Inc. She works with aspiring and established authors, including self publishing authors and those seeking agents and independent or traditional publishers. She helps her clients polish their manuscripts to create the best possible, and most marketable, product.

In the past she has workes as Head Editor of Euterpe YA & MG Books at Musa Publishing, Independent Care Provider at The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, Freelance at Writer and Editor, Recreation Assistant at The Cincinnati Recreation Commission Department of Therapeutic Recreation, Intern at Flaming Medusa Studios.

She studied at the University of Cincinnati.

Ellen's specialties include developmental editing, copy editing, line editing, writing, editing, proofreading, copyediting, copywriting, creative writing, query letters, manuscript editing, E-Books, novel editing, and fiction editing.

For more information, visit her website: www.keytopservices.com

In the next few chapters we'll look at her advice on a few different topics, which I hope will be helpful and informative. Also, feel free to contact her for use of her services if you want. She's pretty good.

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