Start your story where your story starts. You’re saying, well, duh. But it’s not as simple as it sounds. I want to talk real quick about one of my earlier versions of Holy Fudgesicles. This actually dates back to last year when I was preparing to attend the RMFW Conference. I first noticed a potential […]
Avoiding Past Progressive Tense
One of my biggest writing mistakes (especially early on, but it stills shows up every now and then) is to slip into this annoying tense that I believe is called past progressive or past continuous. The most common place I find it is when I’m describing a setting. For example, after Bob walks into a […]
My Top 5 Bad Writing Habits
We all make mistakes. Especially those of us who write fiction for fun. And that’s totally okay. It goes with the territory. But the problems arise when we fail to recognize our mistakes and try to correct them. So with that in mind, here are My Top 5 Bad Writing Habits. And just for fun, […]
How NOT to write
Allow me to gripe, if you will… I went to Scooters with a good 90 minutes to write today. Total freedom. And I don’t mean freedom from the kids or anything like that. I’m currently caught up on all of my writing stuff for the rest of the weekend. The first round of my novel […]
3 Most Common Mistakes I Find in My Own Fiction
After spending the last few years writing, reading, and learning as much as I could about writing fiction and the “right” way to do things, I’ve also learned a lot about the wrong way. Not only through Theme of Absence, but also from my own work. In fact, most of what I discovered came from […]
Five Links Friday 3/27/15
Five Links Friday! Here’s some great stuff to check out over the weekend. 1. Feeling a little down about your writing, or anything else going on in your life? You shouldn’t. Here are 20 Signs You’re Doing Better Than You Think You Are from Pulptastic. Most likely at least a few of these apply to […]
Your first draft sucks, but revising it doesn’t have to
“The End” Maybe you’ve waited to type those word for thirty days in November, or maybe you’ve been waiting for several years, adding words to your novel whenever you could find a spare minute. Either way, you’ve finally completed your first novel. You call your friends and update your Facebook status and your non-writer friends […]
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