The Daily Port of Call: August 13, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find how to engineer the reader’s emotional journey, tips for action scenes, and three tips to pare down your prose.

You can engineer the reader’s emotional journey through your story.

Make your action scenes more than just a series of events.

Here are three tips to pare down your prose.

Find out what a writing partner can do for you.

Create your own writing retreat with these five DIY tips.

Check out these fourteen tips to help authors make the most of Wattpad.

The Daily Port of Call: August 12, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find tips for writing sex scenes, tips on editing and the writing craft, and why one author made the leap to indie publishing.

Learn these ten top tips for writing sex scenes.

In this comprehensive post on editing and the writing craft, learn what to do when you’re writing and learning the craft, how to know when it’s time to stop editing, and more.

Find out why one author made the leap from traditional to indie-publishing.

Discover these tips to get your short stories published in lit mags (and why you want to even if you write novels).

Find out why joining a writing group may be the best thing you do all year.

A website is important for your author platform. Check out these 15 website essentials.