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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session Seven
This is just the lesson I needed right now. I think you hit the nail on the head with why my first book became such an agonized experience for me. When I started writing it, I hadn't taken any classes. I went in with my BA in English Lit and love of reading romance. I always loved to edit as I...- Brandi Hoenig
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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session Four
Abolutely! I have to use it to vary the way some of my characters demonstrate emotions. I have a character now that is pretty closed off and moody and in the beginning it doesn't take much to put him in that ugly place. With that being the case, I need to vary the way I describe it because it...- Brandi Hoenig
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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session Four
Again...a lesson I desperately needed. I'm editing now and I find that a big issue of mine is transition of time. I always feel like I have to account for every minute. I've ready thousands of books and I never picked up on those transitions of time so incorporating them into my own writing has...- Brandi Hoenig
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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session Three
This exercise is proving super useful to me. First of all...I have felt way too much in my manuscript. 196 instances over 129K words. After going through, I see most of them are easy fixes. My other bad habit and you touched on this a bit in your lesson one replay to me is that my sentences are...- Brandi Hoenig
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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session One
Thanks!- Brandi Hoenig
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Lecture Ignite Your Fiction Session One
I'm not sure if I did this right or not. This is not my original first page. This is the first page of chapter 1. I originally had a prologue. I like it better with the prologue, but those are frowned upon. In this case, with this story, I think the prologue makes the story so much better. I've...- Brandi Hoenig
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C'mon in and say Hi!
Hi all! I think I'm getting the hang of this site now that my log in issues have been solved. Thanks you to RJ for getting on that in less than ten minutes. I'm not patient person so I very much appreciate it! So as for me, I'm a new contemporary romance writer. I'm currently editing the...- Brandi Hoenig
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