FINDING THE RIGHT WORD – Taking the extra time to construct your sentences with just the right words is worth the effort. Using the right word, you can build tension, create wonder in the reader, and energize what might otherwise be a boring scene. It just takes time, patience, and sweat. WORDS MATTER – The…
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 double martinis, while his only form of exercise seems to be bedding a different woman every night. And yet…. “Tabitha held her…
Engage Your Reader with Active Voice in Your Writing How to write and revise your novel manuscript with active voice – passive examples. While it has it’s uses – mostly in business writing – passive voice is considered weak and unappealing. Technically speaking, voice is determined by the property of a transitive verb which shows…
The most important part of any story is the characters. Indeed, the characters ARE the story. If you don’t have believable characters, you don’t have a story – no matter how good the rest of the writing may be. When creating fun and realistic characters, the thing you want most is for your characters to…
