Revising your manuscript is one of the most difficult things in writing. Many authors will tell you that revising a novel is far more difficult than writing it in the first place. And I get it. I have an unpublished novel that revising has been a complete nightmare on. A lot of the problems with […]
The most important thing
I was talking about Stephen King’s Dark Tower series the other day and what I liked and disliked about it. (Okay, it was mostly what I disliked, but still…) Like a lot of King’s novels, the books in the Dark Tower series are often way too long, too slow, and full of too many pointless […]
Five Links Friday 6/23/17
It’s Friday! I’m back from a few days at the cabin with some nice memories and some not-so-nice sunburn. Here’s another edition of Five Links Friday for ya… 1. Let’s start with an interesting post by Noelle Sterne at Writer’s Digest with A Shocking (and Fun) Short Story Writing Technique. 2. For the new writers […]
Five Links Friday 6/2/17
It’s the first Friday of June and I feel like this is going to be an awesome month. Let’s get right into Five Links Friday! 1. Let’s start with a motivational tip from NAME at Two Drops of Ink: Just Write! Stop Waiting for the Good Stuff. I couldn’t agree more. Get the words done […]
Five Links Friday 5/19/17
It’s time again for Five Links Friday: The best articles I read about writing this week. Hope you enjoy! 1. Let’s start this week with ta quick post by Christopher Kokoski on The Fastest Way To Make All Your Descriptions Better. 2. Whoa. Here’s a post by Blake Atwood with some really interesting numbers, but […]
Podcast Episode 36 – Describing Violence in Fiction
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few different ways to describe violence in your writing. When is too much too much, and when are you not using enough. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the […]
Five things that will pull a reader out of your story
One of our most important jobs as writers is to create a product that will allow our readers to suspend disbelief while they enter the worlds we create long enough to consider them real places with real people doing real things. In order to achieve this, we have to be careful to make sure we […]
Word Problems: “That”
One of the biggest problems newer writers have is the word was. I overused it constantly when I first started: Henry was sweating. Margo was crying. The air conditioner was broken. Their daddy was hot. He was crying too. It’s an ugly habit, but also a fairly easy one to break once you become of […]