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     Monday Motivation: Writing’s “secrets” are in plain view
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted January 17, 2022

    Monday Motivation: Writing’s “secrets” are in plain view

    Creative writing is not, as some suppose, an arcane art over which only the select few are ever granted mastery, or to which there is access via a magic key, a secret skill available only to the [...]

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     Monday Motivation: The power of The Power of the Dog
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted December 13, 2021

    Monday Motivation: The power of The Power of the Dog

    The usual suspects are talking up The Power of the Dog as a likely Oscar winner, and Benedict Cumberbatch an Oscar favourite for his role as the cowboy Phil Burbank. For Jane Campion, whose The [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Six strategies for generating drama and suspense
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted September 27, 2021

    Monday Motivation: Six strategies for generating drama and suspense

    The most successful drama series of the year in the UK offers us a number of insights into the variety of means writers have at their disposal whenever they need […]

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     Monday Motivation: The secret in the iron-bound chest
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted September 3, 2018

    Monday Motivation: The secret in the iron-bound chest

    There was, in Bedford in the UK, a curious institution called the Panacea Society. It was a millenarian religious group, founded in 1919 which followed the teachings of a nineteenth-century […]

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     Monday Motivation: Big bang – or slow burn?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted December 11, 2017

    Monday Motivation: Big bang – or slow burn?

    Here’s a decision that writers are frequently called on to make. It’s the choice between creating dramatic irony – in terms of which your protagonist remains ignorant of facts [...]

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     Writing Secrets: It may be pacey, but take your time
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 8, 2017

    Writing Secrets: It may be pacey, but take your time

    One of our mentoring participants has held us in suspense for roughly 70 000 words. (In tranches of 5 000 words a month, that’s quite some wait). I’m not going to tell […]

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     Monday Motivation: A lesson in restraint and suspense
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted October 2, 2017

    Monday Motivation: A lesson in restraint and suspense

    Here’s a lesson in restraint and suspense from that master of both, Michael Connelly: In Chapter 3 of his latest police procedural, The Late Show, which features a brand new […]

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     Monday Motivation: What keeps you turning the page?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing, Monday Motivation
    Posted July 10, 2017

    Monday Motivation: What keeps you turning the page?

    You’ve read The Da Vinci Code and you know that one of the devices that Dan Brown uses to get his many millions of readers to become compulsive page turners […]

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