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Ian Irvine Reveals 41 Ways to Keep Readers Turning the Page!
41 WAYS TO CREATE AND HEIGHTEN SUSPENSE IN FICTION PART ONE – CHARACTERS AND THEIR PROBLEMS According to top New York literary agent Noah Lukeman (The Plot Thickens), if a writer can maintain suspense...
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Part Two of Ian Irvine’s 41 ways to Keep Readers Reading
41 WAYS TO CREATE AND HEIGHTEN SUSPENSE IN FICTION PART TWO – PLOT AND STRUCTURE The first part of this article dealt with suspense from the viewpoint of characters and their problems. This part looks...
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Raring to ROR…
As some of you might know our ROR writing group gets together every 12 – 18 months to critique our books in progress. Back in 2001 at the first ROR we read Margo Lanagan’s Black Juice anthology and...
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Margo Reveals What it’s like inside a ROR Crit Week!
From Margo … A Deepening ROR—a wRiters On the Rise workshop, from the inside That's where we were circled in red First there’s a bit of foreplay. Someone pipes up online: “When’s the next ROR?” Someone...
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Opportunity for Writers
The QWC Hachette Mauscript Development Program has opened again. This is not genre specific, in fact it is not even fiction specific, so you might have a non-fiction book to submit. Submissions close...
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Paula Weston asks: Why aren’t YA books as respected as ‘adult’ books?
Today we have Brisbane based author, Paula Weston, whose debut YA fantasy Shadows has just been released from Text Publishing. Paula is going to talk about her passion, writing for Young Adults. She...
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The New Zealand Writers College short story competition is open to both NZ and OZ writers (who have had less than 4 short stories published). Winning or placing in competitions is a good way to...
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Felicity makes the Final Three of the Text YA Fiction Competition
We’re doing a Squee! for Felicity, regular ROR blog reader and guest poster. (See Fel’s post on using research to give authenticity to your writing. She talks about her time on the tall ship and a...
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Just in case you write cross-genre, this came through from Sisters in Crime: Sisters in Crime 20th Scarlet Stiletto Awards short story competition – now open – $6950 in prize money Sisters in Crime...
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Workshop Mentoring Opportunity
Having run EnVision which was a 5 day mentoring opportunity for writers to polish their books under the guidance of an experienced author, I know how useful this opportunity can be. So I’m delighted to...
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