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Writing Tips

Tips on writing timed exercises

Chekhov on writing

Six Common Endings in Fiction

Everything you never wanted to know about Grammar

Tone in Creative Writing

Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules for good writing

Sentence Length

Story Structure

Novel Structure

The Four Elements in Fiction

Character Definition

Characters Make the Plot

Character Creation

Write better Dialogue

Writing in the First Person

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