Getting Serious about Series
If you went to the World Series three years in a row, did you go to three serieses or three…
Infusing Your Settings with Emotion
Editor Robin Patchen wraps up our look at fatal flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses (If you’ve missed the other posts…
A Step-by-Step Guide for Home Workplace Organization
Today’s guest post is by blogger Emily Johnson: Proficient writers would agree that writing is not only a way to…
Are You Reticent or Reluctant to Read This?
Here are two words that get mixed up at times—reticent and reluctant. If you’re reticent, it means you are reserved/restrained…
Writers: Beware of Body Parts Behaving Badly
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #10 – Description Deficiencies. Too many manuscripts are lacking essential description–of characters,…
The Glorious Insanity That Is NaNoWriMo
Today’s post is by H. E. James: Na-No-What-Mo? For the last seven years, from this month through November, I’ve been asked…
Don’t Raise a Ruckus about Rise and Raise
Here’s a little grammar lesson. Some verbs are transitive. This means they take a direct object. Writers often run into…
Tricks to Writing Descriptions in First-Person POV
Today editor Linda Clare continues our look at Fatal Flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses. Knowing how, when, and in…
Talking Heads Avoidance Device
Back in August, we spent a month going over one of the fatal flaws in fiction writing: Flawed Dialogue Construction….