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Pixar's 22 Rules for Storytelling

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling: Challenge Your Characters. Come Up With Your Ending Before Doing Your Middle. #writing #writers #authors Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Admire characters for attempting more. Keep in mind what’s interesting to you. Get to the end of the story. Then rewrite. Once upon a time there was . . . […]

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i before e rule exceptions

The I Before E Rule: This Is Funny

I found this funny graphic on Facebook, shared by Grammarly.com and created my Simon Taylor. This is #funny. i before e except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor. The i before e rule is certainly handy but it clearly has a lot of exceptions. 21 39            

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I don't need an editor

You Need an Editor for Your Book

Here’s a SomeEcard that states the point very well: I don’t need to hire an editor. My book is perfect just the way it is. – Said no bestselling author. Ever. 1001 Ways to Market Your Books “If you want to sell 250,000,000 books like we have, read and use this book.” – Mark Victor […]

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Ray Bradbury on Writing

Ray Bradbury on Writing

Here is a wonderful quote from science fiction author Ray Bradbury on writing. If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only when you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury, science fiction author You fail only when you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury #writing #books #writers […]

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