Joining NaNoWriMo has its perks. One is a newsletter with writing tips.

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Personally, I didn't see anything here I hadn't seen before, but it's in short-hand, and I

always need reminders

of the good advice I've read and forgotten, so here's an excerpt or two, which may lead you to click on the link to her blog:

5 Ways to Improve Your Action Sequences

NaNoWriMo writer Bethany Nolan shares some editing advice on improving action scenes in your novel:

1. Short sentences (go, click on the link for more)

2. Action words (go, click on the link for more)

3. What’s important?
   ....Do I need to know the exact layout of the warehouse? (go, click on the link for more)

4. Who’s your writing hero?
   Who has written action before you? What did you like about it? (go, click on the link for more)

(If you need extra help with this, Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer might be up your alley.)

1. Does it read like an action movie? (go, click on the link for more)

Bethany Nolan

is a Creative and Professional Writing bachelor’s student and a lover of ghosts, magic and space adventures. ... Her poetry chapbook about Greek mythology is called LEGENDS and her twitter, where she often rambles about said Greek mythology, is @tempestaurora.

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