It’s the little
things that make my eye twitch when I run across them in a published
book. These are mistake such as misspelled words or wrong term usage (clinched instead of clenched when referring to a tightened fist or jaw, for example), and
a myriad of tiny errors that can be and sometimes are...
Make-A-Story™ Monday - This Week's Writing Prompt
Writing to spec – you’ve heard the term. It means writing what the
publisher wants. Can you do it? In our new feature - Make-A-Story™, we ask you
to create a story with these elements. The story can be set in any time frame,
any length, must adhere to our guidelines and have our standard Christian...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
A myth exists
that an author toils alone when he is taking words and forming them into
sentences that make paragraphs, that turn into pages, which become scenes, and
then morph into chapters that become a novel.
The
truth: an author who works alone, who doesn’t seek out an objective voice, who
doesn’t...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
Too much
information, what does that mean? Can an author have too much information about
his characters, his story world, or too much research about the era or the background
central to the story’s plot?
No. The
more an author knows about his characters, the more realistic they become for
the reader....
Make-A-Story™ - Monday's writing Prompt
Writing to spec – you’ve
heard the term. It means writing what the publisher wants. Can you do it? In
our new feature - Make-A-Story™, we ask you to create a story with these
elements. The story can be set in any time frame, any length, must adhere to our
guidelines and have our standard Christian world...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
Lately,
when reading, italicized internal monologue jumps right out at me. Literally. The
words jar me, and I’m sure they jar the majority of readers. Why? How can I put this?
Internal
monologue is shown via italicization. The reader is going along in the normal
font, and then it slants. Then it...
