It’s Friday and it seems we’ve skipped Fall, Winter, and Spring, and are already back to the near 100 degree temps of Nebraska weather. And I despise it. Here are Five Links for you to read while you’re staying indoors and avoiding the sauna outside. 1. Let’s start with a grammar lesson and a look […]
WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING AT ME!!!
As the only dude reading submissions for Theme of Absence, I see a lot of “rules” of writing that should never be broken. (Yes, I understand that rules are meant to be broken, but that comes in a more general sense, and you need to understand why exactly the unofficial rules of writing exist before […]
Five Links Friday 7/14/17
Time for another late night Five Links Friday. But, hey, better late than never, right? Enjoy! 1. There are so many marketing options out there that I’ve never really looked in to Instagram. Here is a post with 4 Tips to Get Started Marketing on Instagram from Power Social. 2. I’ve pitched at conferences a […]
Seven Dialogue Don’ts
As I continue working through the outline of the first book of a planned trilogy, I started drafting out a few of the scenes that seemed the most relevant to the overall plot and character arcs. One of these scenes was a little more dialogue-heavy than I envisioned. Not a big deal, since it’s literally […]
Looking at Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Good Writing
I saw a pin the other day that listed ten short writing tips and attributed it to a guy named Elmore Leonard. So I looked him up and his story checks out. In addition to selling tens of millions of copies of his novels and selling screenplays to a handful of successful Hollywood movies, he […]
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 […]
Podcast Episode 28 – Writing Pet Peeves
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few of the things they see in writing that just get on their nerves, as they take turns discussing their writing pet peeves. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About […]