Tag: how to write a book

• 10 Best Advice On Writing By Stephen King

  

  Stephen King, for me, is the God of writing. He knows how to create believable characters that will make you feel all kinds of emotions (a wide, wide range of emotions at that), he creates genre-defining works and his stories are simply incomparable to any other on the planet (though I do know a couple…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  July 4, 2021

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• Writing Vlog #2: Writing A Short Story From Scratch

  

  In this video, I have tried to capture my process of writing a short story. If you are a new writer or are curious about how writing is done, then I am sure you’ll enjoy this video. I you are a veteran writer then I am sure you will be able to relate to it…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 24, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Vlog, Writing

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• 7 Types Of Characters In Fiction

  

  Characterisation is one of the most important elements of any story, long or short. If you don’t get the characterisation right, chances are that your story will fall flat on its face and no writer wants that to happen! So the best way to make sure that your story stays with the reader long before…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 17, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• Discovering The Writer Within

  

  The first place you need to begin, especially while starting a long-form fiction project (or re-starting it), is to discover yourself as a writer – to find out what kind of a writer you are. Because unless you do it, you won’t know how to proceed further, especially once the initial flame of anticipation and…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 12, 2020

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• Character Profile Sheets (CPS) – Part 2

  

  Character Profile Sheets are a great literary tool that help you in profiling your characters, especially the main characters of your story. They not only help you in being consistent with your character’s traits throughout your story or manuscript but also help a great deal in creating as well as painting the character arc you…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 8, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Podcasts, Vlog, Writing

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• The 4-Act-Structure: Introduction

  

    As almost all the plotters would swear by, outlining a story helps a writer greatly in making sense of the story for the readers. We, as writers, know what our story is and how it plays out, the difficult bit is to put in into words in a systematic way and have it make sense…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 21, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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• Naming The Writer’s Unconscious – A Little Girl And Her Puppy

  

  I always read craft books not once, but several times. I guess that’s the best way to really get the techniques and the wisdom they have to offer. Lately, I’ve been re-reading Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott and came across a concept, more like a paragraph or two, where author Lamott mentions about naming the unconscious: “My…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 9, 2017

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• What Is Writer’s Block? And 3 Things to Keep In Mind

  

  There are a lot of people who don’t believe in the existence of Writer’s Block, but let’s face it, even though you don’t want to name it, there are periods of time in every writer’s life when you simply can’t write (no matter how much you want to!) You can call it a “bad phase”,…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  March 16, 2017

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• 10 Questions To Help You Determine The POV(s) For Your Story

  

  Choosing the main Point Of View(s) for your story is either the simplest or the hardest thing you’ll ever come across while writing your book. Determining the voice which narrates or unfolds your story is a tricky thing because if you select the wrong one your story is doomed. Sometimes (a few precious instances), you…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 26, 2017

  Podcasts, Writing

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• Point Of Views (POVs)

  

  Point Of View, casually known as POV, is one of  the most important literary devices that is used in fiction writing. Determining the perspective from which the story is told is often the making or the breaking point of a novel. If you make a wrong decision, your readers will be highly disappointed due to…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 16, 2016

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• Freewriting – Everything You Need To Know

  

  Freewriting is a very important prewriting technique that not only helps you to get over your writer’s block, but also to tap into your sub-conscience mind and see what all ideas and stories are hiding there. Most of the times, we get stuck while writing a story, or an article, and simply don’t know what…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  August 3, 2016

  Podcasts, Writing

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• All About First Drafts

  

  A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you’re a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you’ve come to the right place. Just for the sake of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  July 15, 2016

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• Editing Vs Revising

  

  We all are aware of what revising a draft means and what it means to get your manuscript edited, but very few writers really know the real difference between the two. If you’ll ask around, the most common answer is that what we do ourselves is revising and what an editor does is editing. But…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 16, 2016

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• The 3-Act Structure: In Detail

  

  In order to utilize the 3-Act Structure efficiently, there is a need for a systematic sequence of elements to be followed that carries the story forward.  In the 3-Act Structure, each act has some particular story moves and by following these particular set of acts, you can rest easy that there will be no place…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  February 1, 2016

  Writing

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• Character Profile Sheets

  

  Characterisation is one of the most important aspects of writing a book. It is one of the 9 most important elements of Novel Writing. Whether you are working on a short story or a long-form fiction project, you need characters, and that too strong ones. They are the building blocks of your story because they…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 8, 2015

  Writing

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