Posts Tagged ‘writing’
The Most Important Edit No One Talks About
Everyone knows what I call the 10,000 foot edit – it’s the content/developmental edit – it’s looking at your story from a plane, to spot the plot mountains and canyons that need to be fixed. Genre no-no’s? Unsatisfying ending? That night with the weasel scene? Everyone knows about ground level edits – copy/line/stylistic edits that…
Read MoreKeeping a Secret – A Great Backstory Technique
Readers are smart. Smarter than we authors give them credit for. They get where we’re going way before we think they do. I think that’s why it’s so hard to give them an ending that will shock them. I mean, think of the books you’ve read. How often have you been truly stunned by a…
Read MoreOrganize Your Novel with Excel
By Laura Drake We’ve talked about it in other posts. How learning your writing process is finding your way in a pitch black room, full of furniture. You can learn by banging your shins, but there are less painful ways. Hopefully, this post will help. I’m an organized person, and it would make me crazy…
Read MoreHow to Slay Your Inner Editor
Don’t you love it when you find a new awesomesauce writing tool when you’re not even looking for it? Me too! I’ll try keep the backstory short (as good writers do, right? ;)) Back in the dark ages, when I thought myself invincible, I helped a friend move. I insisted I could lift the end of…
Read MoreCadence – Writer’s Glue
What is Cadence? To me, it’s Like Porn, in that it’s not easy to define, but I know it when I see it. Webster did manage to define it though (which makes me want to look up ‘porn’): The beat, rate, or measure of any rhythmic movement A slight falling in pitch of the…
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