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    M.I.C.E. Quotient and Skills

    By Myr,


    Writing Tips
    What in the world is MICE? The MICE Quotient is a writing tool introduced by Orson Scott Card ("Ender's Game" Hugo Award-winning Author) in his Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) and How to Write Science Fiction. The MICE Quotient tool makes analyzing your writing easy and can help identify and fix issues with a paragraph, a scene, or even a whole story. 
    MICE:
    Milieu- stories focused on the setting. Think Lord of the Rings books that spend many pages discussing languages and song. Idea - stories focused on answering a question or finding information. Think Mystery stories "Who committed the crime?" Character - stories focused on character and how the character changes over the course of the story. Think coming-of-age stories. Events - stories focused on an event. Think Apollo 13. We will go into the MICE Quotient tool in a future blog. Today, we will leave you with this tidbit: Using the MICE Quotient tool to understand what your story is about and then making sure what you are writing in a paragraph or scene drives the story forward. If this tool sounds interesting, see the Amazon Affiliate links below to a couple of outstanding writing books.
     
    We've added one additional topic, Skills, to the MICE list for categorizing our blog posts. For future Writing Tip blog entries, we will put one of these graphics on the blog: 
    M - Milieu -Blog posts that have to do with setting and world-building will use the Milieu graphic.
    I - Idea - Blog posts that have to do with addressing ideas, themes, and plots that are not character or event-related will use the Idea graphic.
    C - Characters - Blog posts that have to do with the people populating your story will use the Character graphic.
    E - Events - Blog posts that have to with events, story arcs, plots, and other items that drive a story forward will use the Event graphic.
    S - Skills - Blog posts that have to do with developing specific writing skills or the general mechanics of writing will use the Skills graphic.
     
    Our intention with the new weekly tip blog posts will be to categorize them into one of the five categories above and dive deeper into the topics from different perspectives. We'll try to provide links to published links and websites where you can dive further into the issues.
     
    There are several editions out there of both these books. I have them both, though not this linked edition. I do highly recommend them if you want to improve your writing skill talent stack.

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    Return of the Weekly Writing Tips

    By Myr,


    News Archive
    Greetings everyone! I'm happy to announce that we will be returning next week with a weekly writing-related tip in our Writing Tip blog. We will feature the blog on Saturday mornings. For those authors that were following in the late 2018-early 2019 timeframe, we had a separate blog called "Gay Authors Articles." We will be updating these blog posts with additional links and resources and reposting them as we go. The Writing Tips in the Stories Archive will also eventually be consolidated to the Writing Tips blog to keep the content locations consistent. 
    For those not aware, the Writing Tip blog has the following schedule:
    Word of the Day blog post every day. Writing Prompts every Friday Writing Tip Articles Featured every Saturday (starting on Dec 5) Until we get all the existing content reposted, we'll be reposting multiple tips per week.  

    Please follow the Writing Tips Blog and get notified when we post!
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    Following the content and interacting with it (Likes and comments) helps us judge where we are spending our time. If there is a topic that you would like to see, let us know! We are also looking for people that are interested in writing a tip article. 
     
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    This is an interesting fantasy world that doesn't really have magic.  There is a very large series of these books, including a couple of spin-off series.  It's a well-developed world and the books do have some good emotional impact. 
    There is one note of caution here.  For some strange reason, the books in this series are NOT stand alone.  They end abruptly without warning and start right back up in the next book.  So be aware, that if you pick up this book and like it, you're looking down the barrel of 9 books to get the full story with them getting a little more book-like towards the end. 
    Definitely an enjoyable series!
     
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