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 – Clearing Your Thoughts from Distractions At times, typing your novel on your computer can prove difficult with all of the distractions: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest,…
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 – Using the Right Adjective Gusty, smoky, gray, mist-like. … Adjectives are our means of capturing the look, sound and feel of something. We use…
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 – Using the Semicolon Don’t be afraid to utilize the dreaded semicolon in your writing. Sometimes, you’ll need to link complex sentences together, perhaps with an…
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 – Changing Perspective Walk around the block or hike a new trail. Absorb your surroundings. Stop, turn around and look back, observing where you have…
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 – Cut, Cut, Cut Writers often fall in love with their words and phrases. Cutting your work down can feel like you are removing your…
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 – Write a Draft While you write, remember that your manuscript is only finished when you decide it is. Don’t feel pressure to write perfectly…
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 – Play Around with Your Process Type in large font so your words and sentences are bold before you. In the middle of a piece,…
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 – Avoid Dull Writing Each of us works at writing on two levels: a creative, unconscious level and a critical, conscious level. The unconscious produces creative…
Read moreWho’s easier to pen — the optimistic or the pessimistic voice? Write a ‘poem for two voices’ where an optimist and a pessimist share their views about a single topic.
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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 Prompt – Introduce Yourself In the spirit of industry networking and involvement in the writing community, let’s get to know you as an author, and as…
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