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Why Fans Think George Jetson Will Be Born July 31, 2022
A hawk-eyed "The Jetsons" fan pointed out that "someone is about to give birth" to George Jetson. Here's why.
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How To Write Realistic Sex Scenes (pt.1)
Firstly, let’s make something clear. This tutorial is about writing sex scenes in fiction NOT writing erotica. This tutorial is about writing sex scenes within regular fiction (leaning, as usual, more towards fantasy fiction).
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The Weirdly Specific Trend That Has Taken Over Women’s Fiction
Why a wave of recent titles all sound so similar.
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Emma Hunton - BEST Defying Gravity
Powerful interpretation of Defying Gravity from the the neo-Oz classic Wicked.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Giving Spock a Canonical Full Name
You’ve known Spock as, well, Spock, ever since the the original Star Trek. We’ve seen him aboard the Enterprise, we’ve seen him as the would-be unifier of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples, an ambassador, and thanks to Discovery, in his Panic! At the Disco rebellious phase. Now Strange New Worlds is giving a little new light to Spock—with the help of a classic novel.
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The Importance of Grounding Characters in the Reader’s World
We all know how important it is to build fully-fleshed characters by digging at their core. Exposing their attributes, flaws, morals, emotional wounds and fears that revolve around their basic human needs will influence their goals and desires within the story.
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Why We Needed a New Batman
The Caped Crusader wrote the book on damaged superheroes — which is why he makes sense now more than ever
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‘Lord of the Rings’ Amazon Series Reveals Full Title in New Video
The “Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon has unveiled its full title in a new video. In the video (see below), molten metal is seen filling in grooves in a piece of wood while a woman…
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Feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four approved by Orwell’s estate
The estate of George Orwell has approved a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which reimagines the story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover Julia.
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The Blood Club
The room in the back of the building was dark, with only a modicum of late afternoon light showing through the windows, but he shut the curtains anyway, and blocked whatever light he could with some paper and tape. Our sensitivity to light was greatly overstated, but even still, the sunlight was not something our species enjoyed.
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Why every generation re-discovers Stephen King
A most American nightmare
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Ebooks Are an Abomination
If you hate ebooks, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portable, and legible enough, and capable of delivering streams of words, fiction and nonfiction, into your eyes and brain with relative ease.
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3 Tools I Use to Write a Novel Quicker
By Keri Kruspe Author of Otherworldly Romantic Adventures When I began my writing career, I felt like I was trudging through molasses…
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Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius
Johnny is a walking hard drive: a courier-cum-USB-stick. Anxious clients pay to stash data in his head. He has no access to the data; the right password, spoken aloud, triggers “idiot/savant” mode—and gets him talking.
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How to write the plot of a story
Writing the plot for a story is never simple. If you are just starting out writing fiction, a template can help you get started and structure your outline.
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What Happens in Your Brain When You 'Lose Yourself' in Fiction
Using characters from "Game of Thrones", researchers investigated what happens in the brain when people immerse themselves in fiction. The study found the more people became immersed in a story, the more they "became" the fictional character while reading. This was reflected in activity changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with thinking about one's self.
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Ghostwriting Services
Hire a book ghostwriter professional ghostwriting services on Biography, Autobiography, Fiction, Non Fiction, Romance & Thriller. Hire us to publish your next successful book.
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Tips for Writing Award-Winning Children’s Fiction: An Interview with C.R. Stewart
As part of our commitment to recognizing literary excellence, the San Diego Book Awards Association is proud to publish a series of seven author interviews conducted to demystify what it takes to be the best in your genre.
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Magical Mountain fantasy novel published
Magical Mountain is the first in the four-part Kingdom of Treasures series by Asmaa Jamil. What began as a screenplay, Magical Mountain is part of the growing wave of fiction advancing strong female leads. In this case, she retells the Cinderella story from the fairy’s perspective.
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'If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?': sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds
My approach to world-building is a bit smoke and mirrors – there’s only as much as you need to carry the story. I think of it as one of those sets they used to have for cowboy films: the facades look good, but if you walk around the back, it’s all props and plywood. I don’t want to sound lazy, but I want to do as little as possible. I don’t need to know how the sewage system works to tell a story about someone on another planet.
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