Write Better, Author Smarter with Autumn Bardot

Red is powerful color for showing emotion and personality, and the shades of red are also powerful. Using color, like red, can add nuance and enrich your writing, no matter what it's describing.

  ⭐️ PART OF MY SHOW DON'T TELL SERIES ⭐️

The new year is about making author and writing resolutions that are difficult to keep AND about trying to balance our writing life with real-life responsibilities. The writing struggle is real. One many of us face and feel bad about because we can't seem to manage all that we should.  

Life throws us off balance and our well-intentioned resolutions go out the door. But THAT'S OKAY!  😃 Here's why!

Giving gifts is another way that writers can SHOW the desires, strengths, and needs of a character in your story. Showing is a clue into your character's personality so if you have a scene where they give a gift, consider what you would like to show your readers. All those showing clues add up and make for memorable and  believable characters.

Clothes can say a lot about a character, their mood, personality, culture, ambitions, personality, and much more if it's done for  purpose.  But beware, descriptions for no reason just add to word count. This episode peeks into the story closet to offer ways to give readers clues about your characters.  

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✅ Find  more ways to show not tell in my quick, easy-to-use guide The Magic of Symbolism: Enrich Your Writing With Hidden Meaning.   https://autumnbardot.com/books/the-magic-of-symbolism/ 

✅ For more showing not telling ideas take my master class  The Power of Archetype & Write a More Masterful Sentence. 

 A great story has great characters. Memorable characters that leap from the page do more than just entertain. The reader relates and learns from them. Discover how to create believable and nuanced characters that drive plot and enhance conflict by teasing out all the strengths and weaknesses found in archetypes.  

 There are many ways to tell a story and even more ways to write the scenes and sentences within. An ordinary sentence may move the plot forward, but a masterful sentence or scene does so much more! A purpose-driven scene enhances mood, tone, characterization, conflict, plot, theme, and emotion. Discover the author techniques and literary devices to create evocative and layered prose that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.  

This course provides both a literary and real-life approach to:

 • characterization

 • archetypes

 • authorial techniques 

• literary devices

  that will help you master the art of ‘showing vs telling’.

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Twas the night before Fictionmas 

when all through the house 

Only a writer was stirring and starting to grouse 

The plot was all outlined but in need of some flair 

In hopes that saint publishing soon would be there 

The protagonist was nestled all snug in her head 

with conflicts and character arcs that were already  half dead....

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'Tis the season and it's difficult for many writers to make progress on a manuscript. Be merry, all is not lost! I have tips for showing ( not telling) character while enjoying all the festivities.

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We writers like to complain about all the different problems and struggles we face, but there are many things writers, especially indie authors, can be grateful for. Here's a short list.

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Writing an enticing, market-savvy description for your book can be a challenge, but there are tricks and tips to get it done right. Your book's description is vital to getting a new reader to click the Buy link. This requires thinking like a marketer and advertiser, which can be difficult for many writers.  This episode has  a few tips and ticks to finding and testing  keywords to use in your book description and a hack that helped me learn how to write one.

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Don't rush when writing, revising, editing, uploading, querying, marketing or any part of the writing process because it's a sure way to make costly and aggravating mistakes.   Too often beginner writers and newer authors make the mistake of rushing through all or part of the process in their excitement and eagerness to get their book Out There.  It happens to the best of us. And when you rush, mistakes happen!   Despite our giddiness in getting out book Out There writers need stop rushing through the process and practice patience.

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Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one NOT participating in the NaNoWritMo word count challenge.  It's  a lot of fun and a great motivator for many many writers and authors, but it's not for everyone. And that's ok! Here are my reasons for not participating.

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