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     Monday Motivation: Marxism v. Pear Petals
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 13, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Marxism v. Pear Petals

    Frequently when we’re asked to assess someone’s manuscript, or help a writer brainstorm a story idea, we have to begin by stating a fundamental principle of fiction. It is, we […]

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     Monday Motivation: How to inject your voice into your writing
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted February 6, 2023

    Monday Motivation: How to inject your voice into your writing

    I continue to mine George Saunders’s A Swim in the Pond in the Rain for practical writing wisdom, and found myself rereading a section on revision, which I think is […]

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     Monday Motivation: Walking on water
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted January 30, 2023

    Monday Motivation: Walking on water

    We thought we’d escaped the worst effects of the latest cold spell to grip these emerald isles. In December, ten days of sub-zero temperatures left the lake on which our […]

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     Monday Motivation: The challenge of Voice
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted January 23, 2023

    Monday Motivation: The challenge of Voice

    I’ve started off the new year with a close and thorough examination of a list of the four hundred plus literary agents of the United Kingdom – in search of […]

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     Three benefits of doing NaNoWriMo
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted November 8, 2022

    Three benefits of doing NaNoWriMo

    This month hundreds of thousands of people around the world have settled themselves down at desks or in commuter trains, in the cramped quarters of tourist class in jet airliners, […]

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     Writing Secrets: Listen for your character’s place in the world
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 27, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Listen for your character’s place in the world

    Develop a character’s voice well and we’ll immediately understand more about their world view and their place in the world. Last week, I spoke about the importance of voice for […]

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     Monday Motivation: The acidic voice of AA Gill
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted December 19, 2016

    Monday Motivation: The acidic voice of AA Gill

    I want to talk about voice today; the voice, specifically, of a dead restaurant reviewer who developed his very idiosyncratic, caustic manner into an art so addictive that hardly anyone […]

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