Some Random Writing Tips
Not everything deserves an entire article. Here are a few things I’ve learned from my time in the trade that have helped me. Develop Your …
Not everything deserves an entire article. Here are a few things I’ve learned from my time in the trade that have helped me. Develop Your …
Good art—of any kind—contains three things at a high level: concept, composition and technique. Writing is unique in all the creative arts in that there …
Once you get past the basics, punctuation starts to get weird. That’s because a lot of the less used punctuation are more about personal preference …
Genres are a fascinating part of the writing profession. They mean nothing and everything; they are both limiting and freeing; they are arbiters and arbitrary …
If you’re an independent author, you’ve probably done a lot of work on your title, blurb, and cover. Don’t screw it all up with the …
I am going to get right to the point and tell you the secret of writing action scenes: It’s not about the action. Like everything …
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman Way back when I was …
More and more, books and publications that were once exclusively science fiction or fantasy or horror are calling themselves “speculative fiction.” But what is speculative …
We talk a lot about how to write better and the tools you need to do that, but we don’t talk a lot about the …
Sometimes the writing just won’t work. The words won’t come, or they’re all wrong when they do. Even if you manage to type something, you …