How to Keep Your Readers Reading

Check out my seminar from last night! Well, the notes to it.

Last night, I did a seminar for the Writing Barn and it had way more info than I ever put in a quick post, so I’ve decided to share that link here so that you can check it out. It is legitimately more than 90 minutes worth of hints about that. Way more content than you’ve ever dreamed of, right? Just kidding!

But seriously, so many hints that I’ve curated from past blog posts and podcasts and working with writers.

And there are a ton of exercises there and information bits about how to keep your readers reading. So, you can go check it out if you want to!

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PLACE TO SUBMIT

Tales The Writer's Workout

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Tales accepts fiction short stories and poetry.
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Submissions:
Times New Roman or Arial font, size 10 or 12, single spaced
Indented paragraphs except for poetry
Empty margins on all four sides
Empty line for scene breaks

Entries must include this Title Information in this order at the top of the document body, aligned left:

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Entry Title
Tales
Word or Line Count

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