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Tips For Book Openings

Tips For Book Openings

On April 10, 2020 By K.M. Allan25 Comments

If you've entrenched yourself in the writing world, you've no doubt heard what doesn't make for a good book opening. These tips range from ditching prologues to the ultimate pressure inducing advice: the opening sentence/paragraph/page must automatically engage the reader or they won't read on. While this advice is enough to make you consider taking …

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Backstory Basics

Backstory Basics

On November 9, 2018 By K.M. Allan43 Comments

One key to writing a book that connects with readers is including characters they care about. Or hate. It can be characters they hate. Just as long as the readers want to follow from the first page to the last. Follow-worthy characters come from awesome descriptions, dialogue, goals you want to see them achieve, odds …

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K.M. Allan

K.M. Allan

YA writer and blogger. Author of The Blackbirch Series, The Beginning and The Dark Half (books 1 & 2) are out now! I'm also an identical twin, but not the evil one.

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Happy weekend! I’ll be spending mine finishing Avalon Hall by @ruth__miranda, publishing my February Roundup #blog, & more checklist edits for #Blackbirch 3. If you’ve been looking for my Writer Checklists after I mentioned them earlier this week, I’ve listed them all together for the first time on my blog. The link is in my bio!
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