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M. L. Bull
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7 Specific Categories of Book Titles
In many ways, books are like people, as each one carries an essence of life, inspiration, and influence of its own. You know what people...
M.L. Bull
Mar 16, 20253 min read
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Thematic Significance: What's Your Story's Message?
Thematic significance is the moral, statement, or universal truth an author is conveying to their readers through their short stories,...
M.L. Bull
Mar 13, 20252 min read
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Theme: What's Your Story's Idea?
Theme is many times associated with the message of stories based on the terminology we're familiar with from writing essay and research...
M.L. Bull
Mar 7, 20252 min read
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Literary Devices: Adding Voice
Voice is one of the most distinctive features within fiction and from authors' different writing styles alone. There are certain literary devices that can allow authors and writers express and show characters' worldviews, distinguish multiple characters from one another, or create emotional atmospheres in their setting descriptions and environments that speaks to their readers. Previously, I discussed literary devices for adding style and adding color. Below are a few lite
M.L. Bull
Feb 27, 20254 min read
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Literary Devices: Adding Color
Like artists who paint on canvases, writers can also create beautiful images and pictures by the use of their words. Aside from literary devices that add style and add voice, there are particular literary devices that can be beneficial for writers to add color to their writing, create intrigue, and engross their readers in their short stories and novels. Some of these include the following list of literary devices below. Literary devices that add color: Similes Metaphors Pe
M.L. Bull
Feb 20, 20253 min read
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Literary Devices: Adding Style
Literary devices are writing tools and techniques that can help writers intrigue their readers more into their short stories, books, or...
M.L. Bull
Feb 18, 20253 min read
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5 Types of Book Series and Serial Literary Terms
One of the great pleasures of writing a book series is the different ways that writers can do them.
M.L. Bull
Jan 17, 20256 min read
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Indie Publishing Timeline: My Book Publishing Method
From written manuscript to a published book, the process of publishing requires a lot of different steps through the process that can...
M.L. Bull
Sep 27, 20247 min read
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The 4 Conditions for Building Character Arcs in a Book Series
Writing a standalone novel is one thing, but completing a whole book series is another and much more challenging. On the flip side,...
M.L. Bull
Jul 11, 20248 min read
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CHARACTERS - Part 2: 5 Common Story Characters in Fiction
Within novels, other fiction books, and short stories, there are many different types of characters that have distinctive roles,...
M.L. Bull
Nov 6, 20234 min read
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Back to the Basics - Part 1: The 6 Essential Elements of Story Writing
There are many parts to writing a story, but there are six essential elements in particular that really make a story what it is, and...
M.L. Bull
Aug 26, 20239 min read
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