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Get yours now!! A collection of Josh Langston’s essays on the craft of memoir writing. (Includes nifty stuff for fiction writers, too.)
Now Available!
Oh, Bits! is now available for Kindle e-readers and in paperback. Get your hands on the most bizarre paranormal, World War II, action/adventure tale you’ve ever read! Autographed copies make great gifts, by the way. Contact me if you’d like one.
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Death, Doom, and Destruction
I am often suspicious of action movies. They’re not bad, as a genre. Far from it. I’ve seen some wonderful action films, and I would gladly watch them over again. But for me, that list is pretty short. I’m content … Continue reading
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Tagged action, climax, dark humor, depression, doom, drama, F-bomb, gloom, humor, pacing, plotting, sex, tension
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Weed Out Weaklings
Imagine sitting at your computer or (for the Luddites among us) at your typewriter. Your newest sparkling prose sits comfortably in view, and yet no matter how much you love every carefully crafted syllable, you still have an inkling that … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, novel writing, Writing
Tagged adverbs, improve writing, ing, ly, stative verbs, tips, was, weak words
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Plot vs. Character?
For as long as I can remember, people in the writing community have debated the issue of plot versus character — which should drive a story? One side of the argument claims a complex plot will generate enough conflict to … Continue reading
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Tagged character, fantasy, Fiction, formula, genre, mystery, plan, plot, point of view, premise, romance, space opera, western
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Platform? What’s a platform?
There’s a hard truth awaiting some who write in hopes of publishing. Far too many don’t discover this truth until they’ve finished a book and put it on the market. So let me give it to you up front: for … Continue reading
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So *Much* Excitement!
The title should actually read: SO Much Excitement! Because it stands to reason that the more emphasis you can squeeze into the typeface, the more excited your readers will be to read it. Right? Uh, no. If you’re one of those … Continue reading
Posted in editing, Memoir, novel writing, Writing
Tagged dashes, dots, ellipsis, excitement, exclamation point, msg, punctuation, stage direction, tweet, Twitter, typesetting, typography
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