On Fridays we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Be Conscientious of the Reader Don’t be too obscure when you’re writing. You may know exactly what a drill press does, but your reader…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Don’t Overwrite Remember, you don’t necessarily need a paragraph describing the bus or a character’s kitchen, unless you’re absolutely sure such descriptions are necessary…
Read moreOn Fridays we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Slow down There is a common saying, “Haste makes waste.” Many writers try so hard to finish a paragraph or chapter that they inadvertently…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Smooth Transitions Never write to a stopping point. Always begin the next section before you quit for the day. Keeping a consistent tone from…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Edit, Edit, Edit Eliminate your weakest links…through revision. Any chapter from your book should be good all by itself. Let no weak link chapter (or…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip –Take a Page out of Your Favorite Book Study and write out notes using your favorite book or a writer you admire. Flip through the…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Know your Characters Sometimes, when you get an idea for a story you just want to dive in and start writing without doing any…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Focus on the Narrative Improve your author voice by watching movies. Movies cram as much narrative, spoken and unspoken, into a frame as possible.…
Read moreOn Fridays, we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Writing Tip – Comparisons When writing, you want to make sure you give the best description you possibly can while avoiding the use of double comparisons. Example:…
Read moreOn Fridays we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers. We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer. Tip – Educate Yourself Writers sometimes overlook the importance of being knowledgeable on many different topics. Your characters are not all going to have the same interests…
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