• Beige Prose - purple prose's opposite; description
  • Epistolary - An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use.
  • Purple Prose - beige prose's opposite; description
  • How to Beta Read by Corrine Jackson corrinejackson.com
  • Chekhov's gun: "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." — Anton Chekhov
  • 120614 The Weird World of Fan Fiction: They're amateur writers—with millions of readers. After years in the shadows, they're starting to break into the mainstream. by Alexandra Alter wsj.com
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