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Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

"Filter words are verbs that refer to a character's senses or cognition, such as seeing, hearing, or thinking."

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Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

By reducing unnecessary sensory and cognitive verbs, you allow your audience to slip into the shoes of the protagonist and experience events as they unfold, without redundant reminders that the scene…

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 2d

On Oct 23, a small sassy dragon is coming to brain-theatres everywhere!

Join Glimm as he manages a band of blowhards set on breaking into Frostvale and toppling the government in this satire about the US-Canada trade war.

Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲
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We've Come For Your Eggs book cover (dragon flying across the sun)

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 2d

Book Broker — An interview with Therese Coen

"Keep writing and keep submitting!"

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Book Broker – an interview with Thérèse Coen

So many authors don’t succeed their first time, but they learn from it and grow into better and more resilient writers as a result.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 2d

True story

Artists all day: depressed, smoking
Artists at 3am: chipper, coffee in hand

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

!!

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 4d

Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

"Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external."

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Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external.

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 5d

Foreshadowing: The Shape of Things to Come

"Planting false clues or intentionally distracting the reader can be a great way to avoid predictability and create a satisfying twist."

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Foreshadowing: The Shape of Things to Come

Planting false clues or intentionally distracting the reader from what’s actually happening can be a great way to avoid predictability in a plot and create a satisfying twist. Foreshadowing is the…

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 5d

Photo by Matt Hard via Pexels

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
— Robert Frost

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 4d

Chilly morning hike
even the forests and fields
dressed for October

#haiku

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 6d

A great novel is honed, not hatched.

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 6d

Coincidence in Fiction: Unearned Clues and Lightning Strikes

"Coincidence works when it ignites trouble, not when it puts out fires."

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Coincidence in Fiction: Unearned Clues and Lightning Strikes

Coincidence works when it ignites trouble, not when it puts out fires.

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨

Carolyn Cee @supermedusa.bsky.social · 9d

@earthlingbeta.bsky.social
dark coming-of-age fantasy (female protag, sad stuff, dark magic)

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Carolyn Cee @supermedusa.bsky.social · 9d

@earthlingbeta.bsky.social
dark coming-of-age fantasy (female protag, sad stuff, dark magic)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 10d

True story

A man with glowing eyes and a caption below, sometimes, I think I am god. Caption above, writers when they solve a plothole they created

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 10d

The FPC is now closed. Stay tuned for results! Should be mid-October.

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 13d

The First Page Challenge closes TOMORROW 🧐

Hit us with your best opening! Make us want to turn the page!

Only $5 CAD to enter. $1000 CAD prize pool.

Contest closes September 30 at midnight PST.

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An illustration of a magical book with a world growing out of it

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12d

"The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation."

—from Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12d

We've definitely reached the "world-building is so dark it's no longer plausible" stage of the current dystopia 😶

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 12d

Today is the day, folks :)

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 13d

The First Page Challenge closes TOMORROW 🧐

Hit us with your best opening! Make us want to turn the page!

Only $5 CAD to enter. $1000 CAD prize pool.

Contest closes September 30 at midnight PST.

darlingaxe.com/pages/first-...

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 14d

I'm just reposting requests to my 🦋 network, which includes a bunch of beta readers. So your friend would need to join to take advantage of that. But there are also many beta groups on Facebook and Goodreads!

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for sharing :) :)

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 14d

Are you a reader who enjoys reading new writers? Have you ever considered being a beta reader and giving feedback? @earthlingbeta.bsky.social connects writers with readers. I read the synopsis of the first two books looking for readers and they both sound great! Check out Earthling Beta Readers.

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨

turtlenot.bsky.social @turtlenot.bsky.social · 15d

1985 set NYC and Outer Banks NC historical accuracy- compromised NYPD cops indebted to mob boss who is challenged by a 'family' ambitious capo- they need a way out.

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨

Yenshio @kensultgb.bsky.social · 15d

Eden Philanthropic Foundation Series
Immortal guardians Adamocles & Evangeline Eden fight ancient evil in modern times. Their foundation battles the shadowy Black House conspiracy threatening humanity.
✨ Ancient powers, modern threats, timeless love
📚 3 books: A Garden Lost → The Gaia Project → Host

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Yenshio @kensultgb.bsky.social · 15d

Eden Philanthropic Foundation Series
Immortal guardians Adamocles & Evangeline Eden fight ancient evil in modern times. Their foundation battles the shadowy Black House conspiracy threatening humanity.
✨ Ancient powers, modern threats, timeless love
📚 3 books: A Garden Lost → The Gaia Project → Host

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, I believe @turtlenot.bsky.social is!

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