Five Months on the First Scene
Believe it or not, I’ve spent the first five months of 2012 discussing the essential elements that must be in…
3 Great Tips for Authors on Networking
Today’s guest post is by Nick Thacker–author, blogger, and encourager! Take a look at these tips on online marketing and…
More Dangling Things
Here are some more dangling things. These are called dangling (and misplaced) modifiers. A writer might start a sentence with…
Watch Your Tone
Since you need to establish the tone of your book right from the start, I want to spend a little…
Digital Publishing–A Marathon, Not a Sprint
Today’s guest post is by best-selling author and indie publisher Bob Mayer, who shares cutting-edge news about the digital explosion…
One Thing Leads to Another
One thing I see a lot in manuscripts is two sequential events happening simultaneously. Authors often construct sentences like this:…
Endings That Spark Beginnings
I covered scene beginnings and middles over the last few weeks, so let’s look at endings. Just like beginnings, endings…
Is the Publishing Game Really “Still a Lot Like It Was”?
An article by Bob Minzesheimer in a January issue of USA Today brought out some statistics about some of the novels on…
Don’t Dangle
I see a lot of dangling participles. Okay, you are probably wondering just what the darn things are (so you…