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Prologue Vs. Chapter One: Three Reasons Why You Need To CUT Your Prologue
Should you have a prologue? Can they ever be useful? In TWN's latest post, Issabelle gives three instances where you should probably consider CUTTING your prologue! Read on.
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EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Traditional Publishing – Guest Post from Grace A. Johnson
Considering the traditional publishing route? Wondering what even goes into choosing this path? ALL your questions (or well, at least a lot of them ;) are answered today in this post from teen indie author of the Daughters of the Seven Seas series, Grace A. Johnson!
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How to Handle Criticism, Feedback, Rejection, and Negative Book Reviews.
Have you ever struggled to handle constructive criticism or down right rejection? Do you fear negative book reviews? TWN's latest post brings the best advice and encouragement in dealing with this pretty much unavoidable challenge all writers will face!
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How do I build my author platform? Tips for staying motivated and writing faster?—TWN Answers YOUR Writing Questions
How do I build my author platform? What are some tips for staying motivated and writing faster? Teen Writers' Nook answers writing questions submitted by some of our readers today!!
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5 Unique Ways to Electrify Your Character’s Voice a Guest Post by Allie Jo Andersen
Teen author, Allie Jo Andersen, joins us today with a guest post on how to electrify your character's voice!
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Meant to Be: 6 Steps to Discovering the Right Publishing Route – Guest Post by Amazon Bestselling Author, Grace A. Johnson
Indie publishing? Hybrid, traditional? So many different options it's hard to know which one is the best for you and your book!! Join TWN today as Amazon bestselling author, Grace A. Johnson, gives us some helpful tips about discovering the right publishing platform for you!
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Four Tips to Help You Create the Perfect Title for Your Book (With Imagine Anthology Updates)
Book titles can sometimes be really hard. Especially trying to make sure the reader is intrigued by it as that will sometimes be the first thing someone hears about your book. So how do you come up with a compelling, unique title? Teen Writers' Nook has you covered in this new writing tip post from Issabelle Perry!
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TWN Special Surprise/Opportunity Celebrating over 100 Followers & Almost 1 Year Blogiversary
TWN FINALLY announces our surprise celebrating over 100 followers (seriously, y'all, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH) and almost a full year of blogging!!! WOOHOOO!!! This is a post you don't want to miss, so join us today!!!
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How to Make Memorable Characters Part Five: My Attempt at Character Profiles (With FREE Resource!)
I'm finally making my return to my series on character development!! Today, TWN is going to be looking at character profiles with an example for the characters of my newest novel! So read on and stay turned until the end where I share a bit of news about my completion of the first draft for Heir to His Crown!
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My Writing Process Collab with Kristianne from Whimsical Wanderings
Today I'm going to be going through my writing process step by step. You'll get to see how I take a novel idea and write from first drafts to the finish piece all with some fun GIFs and my signature wacky self. ;) Join me today and then check out Kristianne's site Whimsical Wanderings to read about how she does her writing process!
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6 Awesome Tips to Help You Accomplish a Mind-Blowing Plot Twist
Plot twists can be some of the hardest things to write. You want to be able to shock the reader but still foreshadow. This can seem like a super scary thing to conquer. If you've got an epic plot twist in your story, then don't miss this next post on Teen Writers' Nook!!
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Where Is Inspiration When You Need It?
Inspiration is sometimes hard to find. This topic is something I wanted to blog about since me and my friends first started this website, but I haven’t gotten around to it until now. So that brings me to today: Are you looking at writing a story but unsure of what to write about? (That’s me sometimes.) Are you stuck in your writing and clueless about what to do next? (Oh, yeah, that’s definitely me.) Do you feel like you’re all out of ideas? (I feel ya!) You’re probably asking yourself: “where is inspiration when you need it?” You’re not alone. We all feel like we don’t get any ideas most…
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How to Make Memorable Characters Part 4: Writing Deep Character Emotions
It's time for part four in my writing series on character development. This one I'm focusing on how to really make your character emotions shine. I hope you'll join me for it!!!
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How to Make Memorable Characters Part Three: The Importance of Giving Quirks to Your Characters
Part three of my writing series is happening here. I'm going to talk about why your character should have quirks and how to use them effectively.
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How to Make Memorable Characters Part 2: How Much Should You Describe Your Character?
Part two in Maggie's How to Make Memorable Characters series happens here.
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Know the Novel: Into the Lamp Plus Some Announcements
Come see some awesome, exciting stuff about my current WIP with announcements about upcoming things at TWN.
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How to Make Memorable Characters Part 1 With Sneak Peek of My Current WIP
Does building strong characters seem like a tiresome task? Then check out this post with a sneak peek at my current WIP
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Things to Know Before You Start Writing
You may be staring at the title, pondering what do I need to know other than my story idea? Not a whole lot, but there is a few things about your story that you should know anywhere in the beginning of your writing process. We’re going to review them here. First you should know who’s telling the story and in what POV (point of view) and verb tense. I’m going to use the example of a spy novel I had written a few years ago. Because I wanted to switch POVs between my two lead protagonists, I chose to use third person limited for my POV and past tense for…
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Where to Begin?
Have you come up with an awesome book idea but don't know where to start? That's what I'm focusing on here.
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