Are You in a Dilemma or a Predicament?
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How to Write Dialog That Sounds like Real Speech
Today editor Linda Clare tackles further pitfalls of dialog in our look at Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. If…
Introducing Authors’ New, Free Entry into Libraries: SELF-e
Today’s guest post is by journalist and publishing consultant Porter Anderson: At the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference in New York…
Are You Appositive about This?
Appositives are grammatical elements that may be restrictive or nonrestrictive in a sentence. Not positive you know what an appositive…
Dialog Writing 101: Conversational Mechanics
This month our editors are taking a hard and tough look at Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. Dialog…
5 Tips for Making Writing a Daily Habit
Today’s guest post is by blogger Julie Ellis. What does it take to become a writer? Do you earn the…
Learn When to Be Restrictive
Do you find the rules regarding comma usage restrictive? Or just confusing? Some comma confusion comes from understanding restrictive and…
4 Key Ways to Ramp Up Tension and Pacing in Your Fiction
This month we’ve been looking at pacing and tension, the fiction writer’s Fatal Flaw #7. This isn’t always easy for…
Hacking Your Reader’s Brain
Today’s guest post is by Jeff Gerke, award-winning author, former book publisher, and writing instructor. I heard Jeff give a…
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