In one of the novels I’m working on, the protagonist and his buddies get into a vicious fight with the bad guy. The fight reveals some important plot points, so I don’t want to gloss over it with a few well-placed “pows” and “whams” and then move on to other things. I want to sink [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2009
Here’s an article by my close friend, Melanie, about writing character’s thoughts in fiction. In quality fiction writing it is often important to tell what your character is thinking. There are multiple acceptable methods for doing this. The method you choose depends largely on the point of view of your story, and the specific publication [...]
Continue reading...11. March 2009
When you first learned about adverbs in grade school, you probably practiced writing sentence is such as, “Mary walked slowly while talking loudly to Joe.” While this type of sentence gives information about how Mary walked and talked, it has no place in writing professional-grade fiction. In order to engage the reader and to [...]
Continue reading...26. February 2009
If you call yourself a writer, you will understand the problem written of in this article. It all starts out innocently enough. You are at a party and someone asks what you do. "I’m a writer," you say. There is one overwhelming response. "Oh," the other person responds with wonder. "I have this great [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2009
The romance course I am taking over the internet from the local community college is proving to be a wealth of information. Not only is it giving very specific tips about how to write romance, most of it can be easily translated into non-romantic fantasy and horror genre novels. My current/future WIP, "The Dream Dwellers," [...]
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9. June 2010
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