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Annemarie DeClark
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Book reviewer. Mystery author. Tree planter. Cancer survivor. Vegetarian. Married.

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Annemarie DeClark @declark.bsky.social · Dec 27
Happy Friday! Happy reading! 📖💗

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My 24 Favorite Crime Fiction Books of 2024!
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Use journaling to develop plots for stories
One good way to come up with plot ideas is to journal about your personal problem.While journaling about an issue is a worthy writing exercise simply for catharsis, modifying how you journal l…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Show rather than tell a character’s personality
All too often, novice writers make the mistake of telling us a character’s personality, as in Jane was sweet and elegant yet suffered from a penchant for dangerous adventures. Rather than…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Writing a Novel: 6 Tips Everyone Can Use
• Should you turn your life story into a novel?• Don’t end novel with cliffhanger  • Should you ever co-write your book? Sometimes you come up with a great story idea with another person. Or your d…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Encouragement and advice for new writers
• Genre writer stereotypes • Your serene setting  • A negative view of your writing abilities never will lead to a positive manuscript. • Do something special – write a book! • Writing affirmation:…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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8 Basic Ways to Improve Your Writing Style
• How do you create a unique writing ‘style’?• Avoid handwaving to cover a story flaw • Craft powerful story by paying attention to milieu • Avoid making incomplete comparisons • Don’t …
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October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Delete bogus alternatives from your story
Whenever trying to resolve a problem, a main character has to decide how to do so. Along the way, he may have to weigh the pros and cons of each possible solution. Writers go through this weig…
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October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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6 Tips on Bringing Settings to Life
• Which story setting to use? Backdrop vs. integral  • Don’t copy favorite characters, settings  • Describe setting from characters’ perspectives  Novice writers often possess a good understanding …
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October 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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How to Make Characters Three-Dimensional
Today’s sophisticated readers generally demand that your stories contain three-dimensional characters, that is, a protagonist who behaves like a real person and who probably grows by learning somet…
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October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

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58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)
In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Write around them: resting my case on lay vs. lie
There appear to be a set of language rules that to most people simply sound wrong when you use the right word. Who and whom is chief among them, as few people, despite the efforts of their seventh …
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October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Use Sensory Details Rather than Internalized Ones
One way to make your writing more vivid is to use sensory details rather than internalized ones. Sensory details (blue, sour, loud, smooth) are specific rather than general. Internalized detai…
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October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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5 Essential Tips for a Successful Book Reading
• Handling book signing anxietyWhen marketing your book, you’ll probably want to promote your book by getting in front of people, such as at a book reading or a book signing. For writers, who often…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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11 Must-Have Elements of Your Story’s Opening
As you write and edit your story’s opening lines, make sure they achieve the following:Use a Great Opening HookEstablish both conflict and mood in the very first sentence; focusing on conflict usua…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Don’t burden us with a self-indulgent digression
Many writers pen stories to make a statement about an ethical or political issue. This is especially true in science fiction; the movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”, for example, is largely abou…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Haiku is alive!

Only 12 more days until the deadline. Visit HaikuCrush.com to submit.

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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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6 Tips for a Better Book Marketing Strategy
To maximize sales of your book, you’ll need a marketing strategy. here are six great tips for developing that strategy. Click the linked title for the full article.• Start early on your book …
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September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Six Awesome Prompts to Break Writer’s Block
• Open story with foreshadowing• Sensuous dissection • Objects you pass daily • Observe your thoughts • Draw upon personal turmoil• Tell what you feel/d…
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September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Last chance to grab LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN for FREE!

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September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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SUB CALL!

We're open for Poetry & Art for Issue 7: The Urge.

Sept 1 - 22.

This time we wanna explore the feminine urge: to cave-dwell or home-make, towards tenderness or violence, giddiness or belligerence, nurturing or devouring...

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September 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Avoid starting story with a cliché opening
For writers, the challenge with most people who like to read is that they read a lot. They’ve seen all kinds of plots, protagonists, villains and settings. Worse, even if they prefer specific genre…
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September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Should You Write a Happy or an Unhappy Ending? – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Sept. 2, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Should You Write a Happy or an Unhappy Ending?When writing the climax your story, you’ll need to decide if the ending will be happy or unhappy. How should you choose which one t…
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September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Use Sensory Details Rather than Internalized Ones
One way to make your writing more vivid is to use sensory details rather than internalized ones. Sensory details (blue, sour, loud, smooth) are specific rather than general. Internalized detai…
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September 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Use broad conflict to set your story in motion
Almost all stories force the main character to solve several problems. The issues of where to hide, of finding a way to send a message for help, of obtaining a weapon to defend oneself, all mi…
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August 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM