That's kind of rude and insulting. I found it useful when I was starting out, but what do I know, I'm only e-published and worship at the Temple...
Another vote for King's On Writing. Add to the list Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern, A Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher, Writing Horror...
Hemmingway said that for every word he wrote that was good, 100 were crap.
I have a large vocabulary from years of reading a wide variety of authors. I haven't been stumped by the use of a word in years. But if I were,...
I feel that a chapter should be a collection of related scenes. Those scenes can be very short. A scene can stand by itself. But if every chapter...
Yeah, what Mot said: don't let the merchant take over the story.
Why does only this character get this alternative point of view? You have two other main characters, shouldn't we see how they are seen by others?...
The trick is providing enough clues that readers can figure it out if they've been paying attention.
Let me answer your question with a question: why are you treating your characters as stereotypes?
I suspect you're having a problem finding the right simile because you already know what I know - you shouldn't use one here. Similes should never...
To clarify, I do not experience nightmares as per the common side effects of trazodone. I don't remember my dreams at all with it, and I'm a bit...
Friends make lousy critics or even proofreaders. Mostly because a) they aren't writers and b) they want to stay friends.
Yes. The big issue is grabbing all the rights, keeping them essentially forever, and never having to do anything with them. That alone is a deal...
The "write from your own experiences" is another commonly misunderstood bit of writing advice. It results in people waiting until they have...
"Write every day" is the most widely misunderstood bit of writing advice. It is meant to instill the habit of writing in those who lack it. It...
Separate names with a comma.
