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    How to Write Fiction
    How to Write Fiction
    EliciaHyder
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    • Reads
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      274,490274K
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      14,95314.9K
    • Parts
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    The advice you will find here follows the Chicago Manual of Style which is widely used by American publishers. There are some variances in style from country to country (and even from American publisher to American publisher.) 
        
        **It may be easier to search the Table of Contents, as there is no rhyme or reason right now to chapter order.**
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    Table of contentsLast updated Oct 01, 2016
    • BIG NEWS! How to PUBLISH Fiction
    • The Number ONE Rule for Writing
    • Writing Tools & Resources
    • How to Write Dialogue
    • Punctuating Dialogue
    • Formatting Dialogue
    • Showing Vs. Telling
    • How to be a Better Self-Editor
    • The Most Common Mistake with Commas
    • The Semicolon
    • Em Dashes En Dashes and Hyphens
    • Point of View - First Person
    • Point of View - Third Person
    • Shifting Third Person POV
    • The Possessive 's
    • The Serial (Oxford) Comma
    • Don't Be Mysterious
    • Creating Characters Part 1 - The Physical
    • Creating Characters Part 2 - Make Us Love or Hate Them
    • Me Myself and I Hate Pronoun Abuse
    • 8 Words That Are Not Words
    • Book Cover Design
    • An Interview with Elicia Hyder

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    • BIG NEWS! How to PUBLISH Fiction
    • The Number ONE Rule for Writing
    • Writing Tools & Resources
    • How to Write Dialogue
    • Punctuating Dialogue
    • Formatting Dialogue
    • Showing Vs. Telling
    • How to be a Better Self-Editor
    • The Most Common Mistake with Commas
    • The Semicolon
    • Em Dashes En Dashes and Hyphens
    • Point of View - First Person
    • Point of View - Third Person
    • Shifting Third Person POV
    • The Possessive 's
    • The Serial (Oxford) Comma
    • Don't Be Mysterious
    • Creating Characters Part 1 - The Physical
    • Creating Characters Part 2 - Make Us Love or Hate Them
    • Me Myself and I Hate Pronoun Abuse
    • 8 Words That Are Not Words
    • Book Cover Design
    • An Interview with Elicia Hyder
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