6 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Writing

• 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…

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Affirm Your Belief in Beauty by Writing

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…

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HOLY SHIT! This book, y'all!!! I have no words! 105 pages of brilliance! (But not a happy-go-lucky story so if that's your thing, don't read it!)

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Five Great Quotations about Craft of Writing

“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…

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Use caution when employing empathic universe

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…

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Develop Good Taste by Reading the Masters

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…

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6 Punctuation Tips for Writers

• 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…

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5 Ways to Get Started and Stay Motivated Writing

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…

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Writing Inspiration: Get into the zone

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 …

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