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Phoenix Novella

When two people are Bound by their love, not even the apocalypse can stop them

Boundis the second book of Shannon Mayer's Nevermore trilogy, a Zombie-ish Apocalypse novella series.A continuation from "Sundered"...
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Stephen King bibliography: Different Seasons part 3: The Body

This is the story that inspired the rightly well regarded film, Stand By Me. Said movie stuck pretty close to the narrative of the source material....
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Stephen King bibliography: Different Seasons part 2: Apt Pupil

This story follows a young boy named Todd Bowden, a seeming prodigy as he becomes entangled with a war criminal from the second world war. There...
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Five Ways to Categorize Prose Fiction

The end. Your writing project is finished. You have polished and slaved and spit-shined until it sparkles but now you are faced with the question...
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Character reaction isn't the same as your reaction

- mzacha/morguefile.com Related articles How to make a character sketch The short story journey: story development Info 101: show, don't tell...
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New Year's writing resolutions

Do you make New Year's resolutions? Are any of them related to your creative writing career? To be published and to be noticed ranks high on...
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Optimal word counts for fiction

Micro-fiction - up to 100 words Flash Fiction - 100 - 1,000 words Short Story - 1,000 to 7,500 words Novellette - 7,500 - 20,000 words Novella - 20...
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