Hey Everyone, I haven’t done a whole lot of writing this week but I have been doing writing related stuff. I have decided to enter Pitch Wars with my YA epic fantasy. Pitch Wars has to be one of the best competitions around. The first round is the mentor round. 75 mentors pick one entry, … More A Writerly Update 44.
I like to think of myself as a pantser, but even so I do plot a little. When I get an idea, before I start writing I will usually know how it begins, how it ends and a few scenes in the middle. I will type the idea up and then start to write. And … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Plot As You Go.
Hi Everyone, Just as I got back into the swing of writing, life decided to get hectic for a few days. I didn’t get to write for four days 😦 Though on one of those four days I did send a short story away, one that got rejected recently from an anthology because it didn’t … More A Writerly Update 43.
The thing about adverbs is that you should use them sparingly, though many writers will probably tell you not to use them at all. Stephen King is famously quoted as saying, ‘The road to hell is paved with adverbs.’ Adverbs, for those scratching your head, are the words that end in -ly. You can see … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Thing About Adverbs.
Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s writerly update. I have had an odd week, writing wise, this week. For most of the week, I didn’t really feel like writing. For those of you who regularly read this update, you know that it usually kills me to go days without writing, so to go days without … More A Writerly Update 42.
Pub(lishing) Crawl is a great source of writing advice from various writers. I was reading an article on there today by Kat Zhang where she shared how she revises. She had some great tips so I thought I would share it with you. She confesses that her first drafts are always terrible. (So are mine, … More Writing Tip Wednesday: The Art Of Revision.
This week’s update is going to be short and sweet. I only worked on my novella this week and wrote 7000 words. I am really happy with what I’ve written so far. I plotted it out first, which I don’t usually do, and am finding it is easier to write because I don’t have to … More A Writerly Update 41.
When writing, it is important to show your readers what is happening rather than tell them. It’s a golden rule of writing. There is one area of showing vs. telling in writing that I hadn’t really thought about, though, and that’s character internalization. I was reading a post on Janice Hardy’s blog that talked about … More Writing Tip Wednesday: On Showing Or Telling And Internalization?
Hi Everyone, The good news is that the kids were back at school this week. The bad news is that I didn’t get much writing done. Not from lack of time. I was going well the first few days. I wrote, edited and sent a short story away to an anthology that was about to … More A Writerly Update 40.
I was on Beth Revis’s Tumblr and came across this very interesting post. Beth is a New York Times Bestselling author of the Across The Universe trilogy. She gets asked periodically why she doesn’t go to a certain area to do a book signing, and I thought her answer was quiet eye opening. You see, … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Beth Revis On The Cost Of Book Signings.
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