Recent content by Becky Martinez
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Plot-Structure-GMC Unsagging your Middles with Becky Martinez
Learn how to keep the middle of your book from suffering from the Sagging Syndrome. Get secrets of how to make your plot move along more quickly through the middle. Learn the basics of subplots and how they can be utilized to get the most out of your characters. Find out how you can use dialogue...- Becky Martinez
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Plot-Structure-GMC Make a Great Start! -- Creating Beginnings with Becky Martinez
Learn how to create dynamic characters, how to begin plotting your story and how to write those difficult opening pages, and learn strategies that can help take you from the beginning of writing your story. Learn how to create scenes, how to write dialogue and you’re your story off to a good start.- Becky Martinez
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Plot-Structure-GMC Learn the Ins and Outs of Writing a Series with Becky Martinez
Whether you want to write a long-term mystery series, a romance saga featuring one or two families or a fantasy trilogy that spans time and space, the joy of writing a series can be both challenging and rewarding. Readers may fall in love with one book and then want to read more with those...- Becky Martinez
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Craft Adding Humor to Your Manuscript with Becky Martinez
Have you ever thought of yourself as a comedy writer? Probably not. Many people don’t think they can ever write it, though they might love to read it. Any story, from romance to mystery to fantasy, can use a touch of comedy or light moments. Like any type of writing, certain elements of...- Becky Martinez
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Plot-Structure-GMC Plot Your Novel with The Plotting Circle with Becky Martinez
*** Registration is now full. *** Whatever type of book you are writing – fiction or non-fiction -- the Plotting Circle can help get your story in order. Developed by two longtime fiction and non-fiction writers, it has served them both well in all their plotting endeavors. Learn how you can...- Becky Martinez
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Business Polish your Autumn pitch with Becky Martinez
Polish up your pitch and get it ready for SavvyAuthors' Autumn Pitchfest. We want everyone's pitches the very best they can be! We are offering a one and a half week, mini-intensive workshop to help you polish that pitch through three rounds of feedback with from long-time and much-loved...- Becky Martinez
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Plot-Structure-GMC Your Novel's BluePrint with Expert Author Becky Martinez
Ask a veteran author about the importance of creating a strong and cohesive plot with a solid GMC and they'll tell you it's key to sustaining a long and rewarding publishing career. Don't let your book fall into an agent or editor's the slush pile with a weak plot and unmotivated characters...- Becky Martinez
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