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Roddy Phillips
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Writing Tips

Pacing Your Story

Ronald Knox’s 10 Commandments for Detective Fiction 

Tips on writing timed exercises

Character Pressure Points

Chekhov on writing

Six Common Endings in Fiction

In Medias Res 

The Cliffhanger

The Word Camera

Creating Plot Twists

Everything you never wanted to know about Grammar 

Tone in Creative Writing

Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules for good writing

Jonathan Franzen’s 10 rules for novelists

Sentence Length

Writing Smells

Story Structure

Novel Structure

The Four Elements in Fiction

Character Definition

Characters Make the Plot

Character Creation

Write better Dialogue

Plot Creation

Writing in the First Person

 

About Roddy

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Armchair Theatre

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