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How Printing Your Book Draft Improves Your Editing

Writing has changed significantly in the last few decades. Where once people pulled out pen and paper, or even a typewriter, we now click away on keyboards as digital letters appear on our screens. Authors jot entire chapters into their phones or tablets, allowing autocorrect to fix whatever mishap we create. Even editing has become simpler with online tools like Grammarly correcting spelling, grammar, and verb usage.

But there is something vital about taking your draft from digital to print.

Voice of the Action: Choosing POV for Your Novel

I love writing. There are so many ways to tell a story and bring characters to life. And it all starts with POV.

Pretty sure it was grade school when I learned why every book sounded a little different. POV, or point of view, determines if your character is I, me, or Lucy Garinn. It decides how deep in your character’s headspace we get to go or how many heads we get to hop between. POV isn’t so easily defined by writers because all we need is the principle; we know what we need to know in order to finish our novel.

List of Last Names for Characters for Fiction Writers

Names have meaning because of the individual. Yet it’s so hard to pick one out of hundreds in order to describe a character. Believe me, I know. I spent a day sifting through my Pinterest inspiration board and am overwhelmed by the number of names that can be given to an entrepreneur, a criminal, and everything in between.

Last names are particularly difficult because they have to match well with the first name. Thankfully there’s many methods for surnames. Gonna detail a few ideas here, and then I’ve got a big old list of inspiration for you.

The Motley Flyers of the 1996 Independence Day

Happy belated Independence Day! No lie, I thought everyone in the world celebrated this historic day, but not everyone deemed themselves an independent nation from Britain. Still, the sacrifices made to create America are something worth remember. And the 1996 film Independence Day made it a global affair.

Independence Day got added to Hulu about a week ago, probably in preparation for this week. You can bet I sat and watched during my lunch break. Creepy puppet aliens, janky special effects. It was awesome. Despite the thrill of killing aliens and saving the world, the characters are the best part.

List of Female Character Names for Fiction Writers

Names have meaning because of the individual. Yet it’s so hard to pick one out of hundreds in order to describe a character. Believe me, I know. I spent a day sifting through my Pinterest inspiration board and am overwhelmed by the number of names that can be given to a princess, murderess, and everything in between. To make life a little easier, I compiled the most fascinating names I found and know below.

List of Male Character Names for Fiction Writers

Names have meaning because of the individual. Yet it’s so hard to pick one out of hundreds in order to describe a character. Believe me, I know. I spent a day sifting through my Pinterest inspiration board and am overwhelmed by the number of names that can be given to a prince, murderer, and everything in between. To make life a little easier, I compiled the most fascinating names I found and know below.

Wrongful Appropriation of Reliable Mentors

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Was this anger? Staring at the final programming projects, Charles saw his streams of code attributed to Wendell Harrison. The class dunce who barely passed the previous exam. Wendell couldn’t tell the difference between a numerical and alphabetical term, yet he knew which student’s work to purloin.