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A writing tips blog by an amateur writer and
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Welcome to Wings of a Writer, a safe and friendly environment geared towards new teen writers. Explore my site and all that have to offer: perhaps Wings will inspire your own dreams as well
Choosing Which Genre You Write: Locating Your Interest and Making It Your Own
Being a writer doesn’t mean you have to write in one genre alone, but it does mean you will naturally prefer to write in one over...
Brooke Johnson
Jul 4, 20232 min read
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Three Suggestions For Turning Your Story Ideas Into a Functional Outline
Turning a story idea from an idea to a practical outline which you can write a story from is one of the most discussed features of...
Brooke Johnson
Jun 27, 20233 min read
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Pacing: How Description and Sentence Length Affect It and Balancing Fast and Slow Scenes
If your novel was made into a movie, pacing is how fast or slow the events occurring in your story would happen at any given moment. As a...
Brooke Johnson
Jun 20, 20234 min read
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Two Values of Feedback: Identifying Your Writing Strengths and Overcoming Weaknesses
As a writer, you likely have one or more things that you can write very well and a few points that you definitely can not. From my own...
Brooke Johnson
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Improving Your Description: Making Sure Your Story Doesn’t Take Place In an Empty Room
Description is what grounds your reader in the world of your story, but a lot of writers struggle with knowing where and how to put it...
Brooke Johnson
May 23, 20234 min read
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How to Create a Hero: Who It Is, How They Become Heroic, and What Makes Them Memorable
Your hero is the character who is most often to blame for causing you trouble in your writing process, because he or she knows you need...
Brooke Johnson
May 16, 20233 min read
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How to Create An Ally: Who It Is and Why They Work With Your Hero
Creating your ally is good look at what your hero would be like except for a few defining traits in his or her backstory. Every good...
Brooke Johnson
May 9, 20234 min read
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How to Create a Mentor: Who It Is, Why They’re Important, and Why They So Often Die
Creating the mentor is an unusual and often puzzling segment in the process of writing fiction. You have this character who is meant to...
Brooke Johnson
May 2, 20234 min read
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How To Create A Villain: Who It Is and Why They Are Against the Hero
Creating the villain can be one of the most rewarding and challenging parts of writing a novel. It’s said that your villain can be a...
Brooke Johnson
Apr 26, 20234 min read
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Capturing Readers' Emotions: Building Strong Characters Who Will Make or Break Your Story
You’ve probably read books where you had no idea what was going on, but you were so attached to a certain character, you had to keep...
Brooke Johnson
Apr 19, 20235 min read
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