Finding the Right Word
Struggling to Find the Right Words in Your Writing? Finding the Right Word – Taking the extra time to construct your sentences with just the right words is worth the effort. Using…
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Abs – Overt Expectations in Fiction
ABS (Solutely Not) (Overly) Great Expectations Don’t you love it? You meet a character in fiction who spends his nights drinking and carousing. Then he passes his days lounging by the pool, drinking…
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Active vs Passive Voice
Engage Your Reader with Active Voice in Your Writing While it has it’s uses – mostly in business writing – passive voice is considered weak and unappealing. Technically speaking, voice is determined by…
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What is an Adverb? Part 3
The Dreaded LYs When discussing adverbs in regards to writing fiction, the kind we’re usually talking about are the ly words, like clearly, dearly, and madly. Many high-brow critics complain that the use…
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What is an Adverb? Part 2
Some words can serve as both adjectives and adverbs. Examples: He swung hard with a right hook. Here, hard serves as an adverb which modifies the verb swung. When he fell, his head hit…
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What is an Adverb? Part 1
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Some examples of adverbs: adjective form – adverb form happy – happily clear – clearly close – closely dear…
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How to Write Believable Characters
The most important part of any story is the characters. Indeed, the characters are the story. If you don’t have believable characters, then you don’t have a story – no matter how good…
