Avoiding the Vague Swamp
This month we’re taking a hard look at Fatal Flaw # 3: Weak Construction. Last week editor Rachel Starr Thomson showed…
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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,…
Getting Right into the Middle of Things
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #2: Nothin’ Happenin’. Editor Robin Patchen encourages writers to think about a scene’s…
In Medias Res—Cutting to the Chase
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #2: Nothin’ Happenin’. Editor Christy Distler explains in detail what in medias res is,…
How to Get Readers into Your Story—and How to Keep Them There
We’re continuing our look this month at Fatal Flaw # 2—Nothin’ Happenin’. Last week editor Rachel Starr Thomson explained the…
Nothin’ Happenin’: Finding Your Story
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #2: Nothin’ Happenin’. Rachel Starr Thomson introduces the topic, showing how writers…
The Perils of Purple Prose
We’re wrapping up our look at Fatal Flaw # 1: Overwriting. Fiction writers often overwrite, and have trouble seeing how this manifests in…
Repetition, Redundancy, and Overused Punctuation—Oh My!
We’re continuing our look at Fatal Flaw # 1: Overwriting. Fiction writers often overwrite, and have trouble seeing how this manifests in…
The Devil’s in the Details
We’re continuing our look at Fatal Flaw # 1: Overwriting. Fiction writers often overwrite, and have trouble seeing how this manifests in…
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