• Use active voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Cut begin fallacyOne way to tighten your writing is to eli…
Perhaps what sets us apart from the animal kingdom is that we create art. Yes, chimps and elephants both have made paintings while whales and dolphins sing, but no animal on the planet other t…
“A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.” – Garrison Keillor“Kill your da…
A common technique that genre writers use is customizing the environment of their story so it matches the main character’s mood. In doing so, the author creates an empathic universe. Examples would…
If you want to be a good writer, you need to develop good taste. This doesn’t mean you should become a literary snob but that you need to expose yourself to good writing to learn what makes it…
• Line of confusion: -ly words and hyphens • No hyphen needed in ‘goer’ words • To use or not to use the Oxford comma…• Easy to understand comma rules • Don’t lose sleep over this confusing c…
Click the following links for full articles: • Take a risk• Let your writing time put your mind and body in a peaceful place • Others dream of writing a book – I am living that dream! • Revising is…
Lose yourself in the momentum of your writing. Turn off the automatic spell checker and your inner self-critic and allow yourself to simply write. After you’ve finished writing, you’ll likely …