• Basic guidelines for your story’s rising action • Develop conflicts related to resolving your story’s central problem • Unfold action to develop a stronger story • Your main characte…
Another way to tighten your writing is to leave out the laugh track. In comedy television shows, fake recorded laughter often is added to suggest that an audience is present – and to suggest t…
• Passive voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Telling not showingPerhaps the most common mistake among novi…
Verbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab. For example, consider this paragraph:I dreamed that my children would al…
“Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always…
One area of exposition that novice writers often overlook is emotional states during character descriptions. Describing a character’s gestures and body movements allows the reader to infer tha…
Previous entries here were predicated on the idea that you are promoting a single, new volume, particularly one that has just been published. However, it’s possible that you already have publi…
Some mainstream media will ignore your release because they deem it as less news than an advertisement for your product. Indeed, an announcement that your book will be released or that it has been …