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Woot! Today my guest post is live on literary agent Nathan Bransford’s blog. Many thanks to Nathan for opening up his blog while he’s away! If you’re wondering what the top seven things every aspiring author’s website must have are, head on over to check it out. Looking to set up your website? I recommend my host, BlueHost, for domain registration and website hosting!

Meanwhile, if you’re coming from Nathan’s, welcome to my website/blog! I tried to make sure I was implementing my own advice before the post went live 😉 . Here on the blog, we discuss writing technique, grammar mechanics and other fun stuff—feel free to jump in!

This month, we’re doing a series on deep POV. We’ve covered defining deep POV and how to get into our character’s heads and tomorrow we’ll start looking at specific techniques for establishing deep POV.

Last month, we discussed creating effective character sympathy, from theory to practice. Last month’s posts are also available as a free PDF guide to creating character sympathy.

Please introduce yourself in the comments, whether it’s your first time here or your fiftieth! I’d love to get to know one another.

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Tooting my own horn

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In the unlikely event that you’re not already reading the masterful blog of literary agent Nathan Bransford, I seriously recommend it. He’s a great resource for learning all about literary agents—what they do, how to get them, how not to annoy them and inadvertently sabotage your writing career with an ill-fated rhetorical question.

And apparently he’s also a wonderful human being, because instead of just being super kind to writers, he’s spending next week volunteering in a South American orphanage. No joke. Since he didn’t want his blog to lie fallow, he called for guest bloggers for next week. Out of over two hundred and fifty entries, guess who was one of the chosen five?

I know, can you believe it? (Um, me, guys. It was me.) So be sure to subscribe to Nathan’s blog and keep an eye out for five award-winning posts next week.

free creating character sympathy guideIn the meantime, we’ll continue with our series on deep POV (though if my post runs on a Tuesday or Thursday, we’ll rearrange the schedule to accommodate that). And in other news, I’ve assembled our series on creating character sympathy into a free PDF guide.

Many thanks to Nathan, and I’m looking forward to the guest posts there as well as our continuing series here.

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