Write…or DIE!
I briefly mentioned it last week in my post on Prepping Your Novel, but I thought I should give the free software Write or Die a little...
Word Counts for Fiction
A common problem for writers is trying to decide how long to make their stories. Now, the proper answer is of course- as long as it needs...
Writing Chinese Style, or how to Crank Out 50,001 Words in a Day.
Not everyone knows this, but Chinese and European chefs actually take a radically different approach to cooking. In the European style (which we naturally follow in North...
(Mostly) Free Online Proofreading Software
Let’s face it, everyone makes mistakes. Even the best writer misses things, and it’s hard to know what to improve when you’re editing your own work. Whether...
Becoming a better writer through purging “thought” verbs.
Chuck Palahniuck (writer of Fight Club, the book) had this great advice up on Lit Reactor that I thought I’d share. His argument is an old one...
The New World of Publishing: How to Keep Your Writing Going for All of 2014
Dean Wesley Smith has written a great article about keeping your writing going that everyone who wants to be a writer should take the time out and...
Year in Review- Most Popular Posts of 2013
So, what did people read on my blog in 2013? Here’s the list of the twenty most read posts. (my own thoughts follow) Keys to Writing a...
Jokes for Friday
I half-read a headline this morning, and it inspired the following joke: A Historian, a Philosopher and an Writer walk into a bar and find the bartender...
Getting your Readers over the Infodump Hump!
“A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down- in the most delightful way.”– Mary Poppins In some of the writing forums I frequent, a very...
Middle Grade vs. Young Adult Fiction
On a recent Writing Excuses podcast, author EJ Patten discussed Middle Grade fiction writing, and put forth a fascinating comparison between Middle Grade (fiction for grade 4-6...