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When I begin a new novel, I often struggle with the feeling that I don’t know enough about the characters’ world ...

You might have as few as five pages to impress readers of your novel.
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What a team! Writers and teachers K.L. Going and Clara Gillow Clark interviewed each other about their writing ...

Reading the prologue to Ashley Hope Pérez’s award-winning historical fiction novel, Out of Darkness, is a litmus ...

Spend any time with Sarah Aronson and you’ll walk away with three things. First, you’ll understand just how much ...

This blog post has been reprinted from an article from Sarah Aronson’s weekly Creativity Journal, with permission. ...

Writing a great scene is easy. A novel, however, adds layer after layer of complexity until it's hard to keep ...

No doubt we could find a book on endings, hundreds of pages--scratch that--thousands of pages, a tome on endings. ...

Note: A version of this post appeared on Swoon Reads in March 2015.When I was a little girl, my grandparents’ room ...

Good Reasons to Obsess over Chapter One, Page One, and Line One
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This blog post has been reprinted from an article from Sarah Aronson’s weekly Creativity Journal, with permission. ...