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7 Character Sets / Quick Tips for Writers / 7:31 July 29, 2026
As with the seven scenes that build the story, introduced in the last segment, seven character sets develop the story, increasing the conflict, intensifying suspense or adding complications. The four main characters who drive the conflict of the story are protagonist, antagonist, an important friend or ally, and the seeming ally. Our purpose in this […]
M.A. Lee
Tackle the Next Book / Quick Tips for Writers 15 / 7:30 July 22, 2026
In considering your next writing, what is your first approach? Many start with a situation: a thriller in the backwoods. Others start with character: a free-willing type faced with his two orphaned nieces. Or you wake up with a title, and the story springs out when you sketch a few ideas. We are never truly […]
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Overcoming Difficulties / Quick Tips for Writers 14 / 7:29 July 15, 2026
Overcoming difficulties is a constant process, no matter which profession you enter. All my guidebooks on writing contain insights that I wish I had understood then. Instead, I nodded along, thinking I understood, but I didn’t turn those insights into practical application. Many writers talked about difficulties and consistency, but they usually added the dreaded […]
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Writing Is a Wonderland / Quick Tips for Writers 13 / 7:28 July 8, 2026
Alice followed the White Rabbit into a hole that dropped her into a strange world. Writing is like that, a hole into a strange wonderland. A project is an intriguing white rabbit luring us to follow even as it reminds us that the project has to meet a deadline or be “late for that important […]
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Cover Considerations / Quick Tips for Writers 12 / 7:27 July 1, 2026
Consider your Cover is Quick Tip #12. One of the greatest expenses that an indie writer will have is the cost of a professional cover. Yes, yes, people say that the editorial cost is the highest one. Development editors and content editors and line editors are expensive. Let me argue with that. The first attractor […]
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Juggle Projects / Quick Tips for Writers / 7:26 June 24, 2026
Writing constantly, writing fast ~ these can outpace our creativity, leaving us drained. The answer is to Juggle Projects. I cannot simultaneously write two fiction projects; the projects we juggle have to be different. This episode talks about that HOW. TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Juggle Projects 04:50 Closing Total Run Time = 5:49 LINK […]
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Think Cocoons / Quick Tips for Writers 10 / 7:25 June 17, 2026
“Cocoons” is the Quick Tip for Writing in this episode. When the words do not come as soon as we are ready to write, what can we do? We have to think like inchworms, the ones that eventually become beautiful butterflies. TIMINGS 00:40 Introduction 01:15 Think Cocoons 03:43 Closing Total Run Time = 4:42 […]
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Loss Leaders / Quick Tips for Writers 9 / 7:24 June 10, 2026
Long before a writer pens the last word in a story and launches into the Proof-Plus, that writer is considering promotions. Promotions, marketing, that’s the same thing. So much of marketing depends on spare cash and good fortune in eyes discovering it. The chief marketing tool, however, is something the writer can totally control. Let’s […]
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2 Key Elements for Every Story / Quick Tips for Writers 8 / 7:23 June 3, 2026
Every successful story, short or long, has two key elements. These two keys recur throughout the story. One takes a new form at every instance, teasing the reader into reading more. The other also teases the reader, but this time the key remains the same, merely doubling and re-doubling, increasing and intensifying. What are these […]
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Antagonists, part 2 / Quick Tips for Writers 7 / 7:22 May 27, 2026
In our second episode on antagonists, we discuss the additional evil actors that drive a plot, as much a part as our main character, our Protagonists. We offer three Quick Tips, first about our major antagonist and then two more about minor antagonists. A key element whips by pretty rapidly, in that each minor antagonist […]
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