Authors sometimes find it really tempting to use song lyrics in a novel or story. The words of the song are just so powerful and so right that… well, they need to be there.
If you’re considering using song lyrics in your work of fiction, you may want to come up with a back-up plan. Here [...]
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Song Lyrics in Fiction
Those All-Important First Chapters
In addition to doing full edits on my works now and then, I periodically make a pass through all my works, focusing primarily on the first three chapters. I try to read them as if I’ve never seen them before.
They get a little better each time I revisit them because I know more about writing [...]
