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This Week: Cory Doctorow Thinks Teen Novels Should Include More Sex, Mark Sample Gives Some NaNoWriMo Tips

By JK Evanczuk on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - View Comments

Where the Wild Things AreErnest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, and other famous writers narrate the funny pages.

Some NaNoWriMo tips from Mark Sample: Use foreshadowing to hint what’s to come. E.g., have the vampire say “I want to suck your blood” before he sucks blood. And: Add tension by making the gender of your narrator indeterminate. This works for race too. And age. And number of nipples.

Another (more serious) NaNo tip: write slowly.

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Lit Drift Daily Prompt #71
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