Use Sensory Details Rather than Internalized Ones

One way to make your writing more vivid is to use sensory details rather than internalized ones. Sensory details (blue, sour, loud, smooth) are specific rather than general. Internalized detai…

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A negative view of your writing abilities never will lead to a positive manuscript.

When writing, do you ever find yourself asking, “What if nobody likes my book?”If you do, stop it! That’s really saying, “What if I don’t like my book?”After all, if you truly felt passionate not j…

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4 Great Tips to Beating Writer’s Block

• Coming up with an opening line• Change the world• Take your story forward• Go down another road

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Think of Plot as Set-up, Build-up, Pay-off

One way to think of a story’s plot is in three parts – the set-up, the build-up and the pay-off.The set-up is like the inciting incident. In addition to introducing the main character and the …

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How to Structure Your Nonfiction Book

Perhaps the toughest question a nonfiction writer must answer is how to organize her book. Often there’s a lot of information to get out.Writers can take a variety of approaches, and som…

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Five Great Quotations about the Muse

“(The) muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentifu…

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What is a ‘platform’ when promoting a book?

One question I frequently receive from editing clients who’ve just self-published their books is “What is a platform?” The word is bantered about a lot on self-publishing blogs and in gui…

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