Category: writing tips

  • Fiction Writing and Foreshadowing

    Fiction Writing and Foreshadowing

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  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    I’ve been so busy, I haven’t done a Friday’s Findings in a while. Lately, I’ve come across some resources for writers I really like. If you are looking for a more streamlined Scrivener, you might want to take a look at NovelPad. It’s free, but it has an upgrade. Milanote and Inkarnate also have upgrades,…

  • No Character Is Perfect

    No Character Is Perfect

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  • Resources for Authors and Writers

    Resources for Authors and Writers

    Someone recommended this page full of writing resources. Looks like a lot of good stuff. I’m going to have to spend some time and go through all the links. Photo by picjumbo.com from Pexels

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    Today I wrote an email to someone who worked in another department at my company. The subject being a sensitive one, I sent a preview of my text to my supervisor to get her opinion. “You’re too nice!” she joked. “I would just tell the person to do it, not ‘suggest’ it.” True, I admit.…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    A baseball pitcher imagines the pitch he throws-before throwing it. A gymnast mentally reviews her routine-before executing it. A tennis player sees the swing of the racket in her mind-before each game. Athletes use mental imagery to improve their performance and connect the body to the mind.  Writers should use mental imagery before they write…

  • Friday’s findings

    Friday’s findings

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read and watched recently: Building a Social Media Plan Writing Scenes with a Purpose Photo by Anni Roenkae from Pexels

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    Recently, I visited my local Speed Art Museum and enjoyed the exhibit Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper. She folded and molded Japanese paper into the shapes and folds of dresses and clothing of historical figures. Upon this paper, she painted intricate details of texture, patterns and created the illusion of actual cloth, actual…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    He who controls the spice, controls the universe. Frank Herbert, Dune And he who controls the movie rights to Dune controls how people perceive the novel. Dune continues to be my favorite science fiction novel since my teen years. It’s been made for the screen three times so far: Dune (1984), Dune mini-series (2000), and…