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Four Key Ways to Practice Writing Vivid Descriptions

By Jodi ClarkIf you’re trying to improve your skill at writing descriptions, there is one quick piece of advice I can give you right now: practice makes perfect.However, I think that phrase could be altered to more accurately say that instead of practice making you a...

3 Effective Ways to Improve Your Fight Scene

By Grace A. Johnson Admit it, fight scenes are difficult. Even the veteran writers who have watched their favorite movie fight scenes hundreds of times, scribbled notebooks full of details, and choreographed fights with their brothers have a hard time putting the...

How to Describe Emotions: 3 Tricks Writers Can Learn From Movies

By Allison Grace All the words in your brain, the feelings in your gut, just won’t come out on paper. When you try to describe your character’s heart-rending grief after losing his wife, you wind up with a messy puddle of words.  It’s nothing like what was in...
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