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,…
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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…
Writing “Personal” Description through Your POV Character
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #10 – Description Deficiencies. Too many manuscripts are lacking essential description–of characters,…
Check Your “Underwriting”—10 Key Questions to Ask of Your Story
We’ve been looking at the many ways writers tend to underwrite in their fiction. Choppy narrative that “magically” moves characters…
How Writers Can Avoid “Underwriting” Emotions
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #9—Underwriting. Too often necessary information is left out of a scene, leaving…
Avoiding Underwriting-Induced Magic
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #9—Underwriting. We looked at the perils of overwriting early in the year,…
Don’t Jump to Conclusions: The Perils of “Underwriting”
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #9—Underwriting. Too often necessary information is left out of a scene, leaving…
Telling the Whole Story: Fiction and the Problem of Underwriting
This month our editors are going to tackle Fatal Flaw #9—Underwriting. We looked at the perils of overwriting early in…
How Writers Can Seek and Destroy Banal and Obvious Dialog
This month our editors have attacked Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. Dialog is a tricky component to master in…
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