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  • 3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic

    3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic

    September 20, 2021

    Today’s post is a reprint from some years back—important technique for anyone writing fiction! Readers will often stop reading before…

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  • 6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic

    6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic

    September 13, 2021

    Today’s post is a reprint from 2016. Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The…

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  • How to Wow Your Readers with Your Novel

    How to Wow Your Readers with Your Novel

    September 11, 2017

    The last couple of weeks, I’ve been talking about the importance of mastering how to “show” effectively in your writing….

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  • Why You Should Shoot Your Novel

    Why You Should Shoot Your Novel

    September 4, 2017

    There’s a whole lot more to “showing” than you think! Sol Stein in his book Stein on Writing says, “Twentieth-century…

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  • 6 Cinematic Techniques You Can Apply to Your Novel Right Now

    6 Cinematic Techniques You Can Apply to Your Novel Right Now

    December 26, 2016

    Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique, and methods used in film…

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  • How to Construct Scenes Using a Variety of Camera Shots

    How to Construct Scenes Using a Variety of Camera Shots

    March 31, 2016

    For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…

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  • Using Close-Ups in Your Scenes to Get Personal

    Using Close-Ups in Your Scenes to Get Personal

    March 24, 2016

    For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…

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  • 3 Ways to Not Lose Your Readers on Your First Page

    3 Ways to Not Lose Your Readers on Your First Page

    March 21, 2016

    Readers will often stop reading before they finish the first page of your story. While this has always been true,…

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  • How Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure

    How Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure

    March 14, 2016

    We’ve covered a lot of diverse topics in this mulit-month look at scene structure. I mentioned in January how weak…

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