Building Blocks: Avoiding Weak Sentence Construction
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #3: Weak Construction. Often fiction sags and wilts due to lackluster word choice,…
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #3: Weak Construction. Often fiction sags and wilts due to lackluster word choice,…
We’re starting a fun series covering a number of weeks featuring guest posts from professionals who work in medical, police…
Just as there are uncomparable adjectives (such as perfect or infinite) that cannot take a modifier, there are adverbs that…
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #2: Nothin’ Happenin’. Editor Robin Patchen encourages writers to think about a scene’s…
Today’s guest post is written by editor Megan Harris: You did it! You wrote “THE END” and have finally finished…
Many adjectives describe “absolute” states—meaning they cannot (or should not) take modifiers like most, more, less, least, very, quite, or…
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #2: Nothin’ Happenin’. Editor Christy Distler explains in detail what in medias res is,…
Today’s guest post is by novelist Karen Pashley: Traveling the writers’ road for the first time? Rest assured, you are…
Do you ever stop and scratch your head when you have to choose between a term like semimonthly and bimonthly?…
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