Writing tip: finding your genre
A while ago I wrote about the importance of finding your genre and researching what’s popular and what’s selling to tailor …
Writing tip: Too Much Dialogue
Too much dialogue can happen to a good manuscript and… to be honest, bore a reader senseless. Line after line of …
Writing tip: Perfectionism sucks hard
In this age of social media and the internet, authors are bombarded with reviews – good and bad – and there’s no …
Writing tip: One sentence paragraphs have a purpose in prose
I have to be honest: I actually hate one sentence paragraphs because I’ve seen them used far too often in the normal …
Writing that first sentence
Next to the title, I find the first sentence of anything is always the hardest. What seems to be a thousand …
Short Stories Editors are tired of Seeing in SF&F
A while ago I wrote about the importance of finding your genre and researching what’s popular and what’s selling to tailor …
#Writing #tip: Saying the same thing twice
And if I’d put tautology in the subject line, I would have been guilty of it. I know I am guilty of saying …
#Editing tip: finding your #genre
Source You have your idea, and you’re all set to begin writing… but do you understand the genre you’re writing for? Research …
Learn a word a day
Source You’ve probably had a word a day calendar at some point — I know I have — but it’s such a …
Oxford Comma: The Great Debate?
There is no debate quite like a grammar debate, especially this one. Check out this TED-Ed video, covering both sides of this …