Tips for Writing Fiction: Neither Morons nor Mobsters

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Avoiding stereotypes is key in creating dimensional characters. Although the characters in my Greco Family Trilogy books are Italian-American and from New Jersey, they are much different than the cast of Jersey Shore or The Sopranos. Like many

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Fiction Books about Happiness: Write about Peace, not War

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We are and have been in the midst of war for the past several years, and it appears as though there is no end in sight to the current war in Afghanistan.  Both wars that we have been involved in in recent years were completely unnecessary

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Tips for Writing Fiction: Making People Out of Words

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Although I knew the general plot through my outline, around midway through the writing of my book, my characters started doing things that I had not planned for them. They surprised me by certain decisions and or actions.  This was when I knew

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Tips for Writing Fiction: The Use of Humor in Serious Fiction

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All of my favorite writers have one thing in common: Their use of humor.  Flannery O’Connor’s use of black humor adds greatly to adds to the characterization and the setting in her stories. Another one of my writers is Nathanael West

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Tips for Writing Fiction: This Tale Grew Into Telling

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The quote above from J.R.R. Tolkien resonated so much with me because I felt that it really spoke of my own process for writing my novel. My novel began with a description of a single character that I subsequently incorporated into a short

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