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Delve deep into the artistry of writing with a focus on refining your craft. From character development to world-building and beyond, enhance your skills with tips, techniques, and advice from fellow authors and industry professionals.

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Advanced Outlining Techniques for Indie Authors

Let’s look at two representative methods for plotters and pantsers: the Snowflake Method and the Skeleton Draft. To lead us into the discussion, we’ll briefly touch on the topic of beat iterations. This is an important concept that will help you to be a better drafter, whether you...

Crafting Conflict and Character: Indie Author Strategies

Many authors begin their outlining process by developing entire character profiles as well as the basic idea of what will happen in the book. They feel they at least need to know where they’re going to take their reader, what the reader is going to expect of the story,...

Outlining for Indie Authors: Boost Your Writing Efficiency

If you stand at the front of a conference room full of authors and ask for a show of hands who are “pantsers” and who are “plotters,” you would start a literary battle, possibly literally. Feelings run high in both camps. The question for any indie author is, will one...

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