Category: description
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Writing Blog Roundup: avoid clichés, sabotaging gift, forget theme, booklover sterotypes, setting scene
Some recent articles on writing that I have read: What’s A Cliché? Overused Words To Avoid In Your Writing. Pay attention to words that habitually end up on your editing room floor. How You May Be Sabotaging Your Gift to Write Words That Matter. As writers, we are by our very nature, critical thinkers, but…
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Writing blog roundup: great writing, create characters, writing exercises, write description, show don’t tell
What I read this week in writing blogs: The Secret of Great Writing. I recently finished editing my first novel, The Golden Crystal. How to Create Larger Than Life Characters. One thing we’re always focusing on, as authors, is creating realistic characters. Fiction Writing Exercises for Creating Characters. Whenever I’m working on a story idea, I…
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Writing Blog Roundup: daily writing, character’s eyes, write description, using setting, breaking style
Some blog articles on writing I’ve read lately: Daily Writing leads to better writing. Ideally, you’ll write every day . . . Seeing through your character’s eyes. Novelists are very familiar with the term POV, or point of view . . . How to write description that will delight your reader’s senses. NY Times Bestselling…
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