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It has been a while since the last blog post so why don't we get things going again with some writing tips!

Read your work out loud. You’ll find mistakes your eyes won’t catch.

Give the reader someone they can root for.

Once the reader has a deep connection with a character, make something awful happen to said character.

When writing dialogue, avoid using adverbs after he/she said.

Use paragraphs to transition between concrete ideas or pieces of a story.

If you don't know the meaning of a word, don't just guess and use it anyway.

As per Quentin Tarantino, the best way to get to know your characters is to have the two of them sit down at a table and talk.

"Write. Just write. Keep writing. Then write some more. If you want to write something good you have to write a lot of bad in between."

What are some tips you can provide to other SparkaTale members?