Make Your Readers Beg
Withholding – Making Your Readers Beg Withholding is a subtle art form. Remember, you’re not withholding from your reader, you’re withholding from your protagonist. But when you withhold from your protagonist, your readers…
Writer’s Art Tools & Techniques Posts
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How to Write a Fight Scene That Packs a Punch
Preparation – Writing a fight scene does require a bit of patience. And unless you’re an expert in various forms of combat like sword fighting, you’ll probably need to do some research as…
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How To Make the Most of Punctuation
How to Properly Use Punctuation in Fiction I love the saying, There are five rules for writing fiction. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. As aspiring writers, we all want to know…
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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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Overcoming Writer’s Block
Overcoming Writer’s Block Silencing the Inner Critic – Overcoming writer’s block sometimes involves shutting up the little green monster that sits on the writer’s shoulder (particularly the beginning writer) telling them that everything…
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Edit Your Book
Why You Should Edit Before You Send to An Editor Editing your book – what’s the point of editing before sending to an editor? Does a book editor charge extra if my work…
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Editing Your First Draft
Whether you’re self-publishing your book, sending to an editor, or to a publishing company — ideally you want to send your ultimate best work — even if you’re having someone else edit it…
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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…
