Ginger Coffee pegged it right. I owe Mr. Pruitt a life time of thank-yous for his overly generous volunteering of wonderful suggestions and final...
Thank-you people. Now that I have come down off cloud nine I will answer a few PMs. First though..........@Aaron DC......"Are you allowed to...
Can you believe this!!!!!! My first time at a full length novel , 171 thousand words and Random House accepted my manuscript. When I got the...
I was not meaning "more" words. The English language has evolved with the times. What I was trying to convey was the use of words that were...
I have read many short stories with self produced illustrations but it is rare in a full length novel. If you are not self publishing, it will be...
I read them occasionally. We had to read them in our English classes. Some of them were a little difficult to follow at times because the style...
I have read a couple of self published books that have words in them that I could not find in any dictionary. I love to learn new words and when...
I have been told by a fellow writer that a new manuscript formatting software is on the market (StyleEase for Chicago Manual of Style) that works...
Have you tried mind mapping when planning and laying out a story before you start working on the story its self? I found this to be my answer to...
I wasn’t going to delve into this topic again because it has turned into a personal opinion thread; however, one area of advice seems to have been...
To BayView: Both your and Mr. Pruitt's style of creating a scene is great from my stand point. Both writing techniques combined dialogue and...
Bay View, I didn't mean to shoot you down or to say your version of dialogue was not done well.
I sort of like the dialogues that followed A.J. Pruitt's post; however, I find his a lot more concise and says a lot in very few words. Drawing...
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