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Page Counts and Word Counts by Literary Genre

Some hard statistics on the number of pages or words per novel for various genres...

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Visualise Your Novel's Pacing and Structure Using MS Excel, OpenOffice or LibreOffice Calc

In 5 simple steps, create a graphic to better understand your novel's pacing and structure...

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How a Computer Detects Adverbs and Other Parts of Speech

Learn how machine learning techniques are used to identify adverbs and other parts of speech in your text...

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How to Choose Names for the Characters in Your Story

6 factors to bear in mind when naming your characters, including usage statistics, pronunciation, and social connotations...

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Identifying Anachronisms in Your Fiction with Google's Ngram Viewer

How to check when a word or phrase first rose to popularity or fell out of common use...

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5 Controversial Style Rules: Outdated or Not?

How to decide which grammar rules you should follow and which you can safely ignore, based on analysis of current usage in published novels...

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3 Essential Steps to Set Up Your Smartphone for Writing

Write a novel on your smartphone, faster and more efficiently, with these tips on backups, keyboards and hardware...

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A Comparison Table of the Best Android Text Editor Apps for Writers

A comprehensive overview of the features most useful for writers, including formatting options, word count, export formats, and synchronisation to the cloud...

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