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    What's Wrong with Ideal Heroines?
    J.J. Richardson
    • May 2
    • 4 min

    What's Wrong with Ideal Heroines?

    If everything else is idealized in fiction, why can’t women be, also?
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    Sincerity
    J.J. Richardson
    • Apr 4
    • 6 min

    Sincerity

    How can we impart knowledge, wisdom, and kindness to our relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers, without sincerity?
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    The Ubiquitous I
    J.J. Richardson
    • Mar 13
    • 5 min

    The Ubiquitous I

    A common problem beginning authors have when writing in first person is to overuse the word, “I.”
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    Pace
    J.J. Richardson
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 7 min

    Pace

    To keep a steady pace, you must keep an unsteady pace.
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    All About Copyrights and Patents
    J.J. Richardson
    • Dec 19, 2021
    • 7 min

    All About Copyrights and Patents

    I have assembled this summary where all pertinent information regarding copyrights and patents is found.
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    Patient Persuasion
    J.J. Richardson
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 5 min

    Patient Persuasion

    Central to all human interaction is persuasion.
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    Top-10 Paragraphs
    J.J. Richardson
    • Oct 7, 2021
    • 10 min

    Top-10 Paragraphs

    Why are there numerous sites devoted to Top-10 Movies, Top-10 Fiction Books, and Top-10 NFL players, but none for Top-10 Paragraphs?
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    Tantrum Movies
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jul 28, 2021
    • 5 min

    Tantrum Movies

    It’s a tragedy when a moviemaker causes the story’s theme to become the story itself and dominate over the plot like a pack of wolves.
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    Stop Asking Me Questions
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jun 30, 2021
    • 4 min

    Stop Asking Me Questions

    If you ask your readers too many questions, they may end up feeling let down or even abandoned.
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    How to Get My Characters to Act
    J.J. Richardson
    • May 31, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to Get My Characters to Act

    Few articles are written about how to get fictional characters to act. This article explains how to do it.
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    The Future of Storytelling
    J.J. Richardson
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Future of Storytelling

    Reciting tales has been a part of human life from the earliest discovered cave drawings until the present day.
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    A Brief History of Science Fiction
    J.J. Richardson
    • Feb 2, 2021
    • 6 min

    A Brief History of Science Fiction

    I offer only the fun bits. Enough for you to be popular at parties, but not sufficient to pass a college course in literature.
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    How to Make Fiction Magical
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 6 min

    How to Make Fiction Magical

    A story that is not relatable is of little use to anyone no matter how clearly it is written.
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    Don't Make Me Ask Why
    J.J. Richardson
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    Don't Make Me Ask Why

    Critiquing other people’s manuscripts of fictional works is fun for me because I start off with a declaration saying, “My comments are my...
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    We've Talked About This
    J.J. Richardson
    • Nov 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    We've Talked About This

    When I’m reading a story, and one character says to another, “We’ve talked about this,” my mind is thrown from the story.
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    The Contrived Confrontational Argument
    J.J. Richardson
    • Aug 16, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Contrived Confrontational Argument

    If you want your readers to hate your scenes, make every character behave foolishly.
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    Why Don't Horror Movies End?
    J.J. Richardson
    • Aug 10, 2020
    • 11 min

    Why Don't Horror Movies End?

    If you’ve spent any time studying the rules of writing fiction, you’ll know that stories must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Howeve
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    Top-7 Villains
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    Top-7 Villains

    Why am I having difficulty picking ten villains? I believe it's because fiction must be entertaining, and that includes its villains.
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    Top-10 Movies
    J.J. Richardson
    • May 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Top-10 Movies

    My twenty-one-year-old son asked me to pick my ten favorite movies of all time. He didn’t tell me why, so I cannot tell you the reason.
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    Slippery Smooth Writing
    J.J. Richardson
    • Feb 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    Slippery Smooth Writing

    If you accelerate or decelerate unevenly while driving a vehicle, your passengers will feel jerked around. Don’t jerk your passengers.
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    Unmoving Movie Trailers
    J.J. Richardson
    • Feb 16, 2020
    • 5 min

    Unmoving Movie Trailers

    The last forty times my wife and I watched movie trailers at a theater, she whispers to me, “They’ve shown too much.”
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    Funny Rocks
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Funny Rocks

    Given the growing number of satirical (humorous) websites that provide highly realistic but fake news articles, I thought I would try my...
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    What is Good Fiction?
    J.J. Richardson
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 6 min

    What is Good Fiction?

    When your prose is effective, your readers will become someone else in a different time and place.
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    The Muse of Soundtracks
    J.J. Richardson
    • Oct 20, 2019
    • 5 min

    The Muse of Soundtracks

    If you want to immerse yourself in a creative and unique atmosphere that sends you far away to a distant land, then listen to a soundtrack.
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