Writing Craft Master Lists: Filling in the Blanks—Participle Phrases
Not sure how to use (and not abuse) participle phrases? The more skills we have in our writer toolbox, the better our writing will be.
Pin ItWriting Craft: Master List of Copy Editing Skills
Learn what skills to study with my master list of Copy Editing skills. What craft skills do we need to understand and be able to apply to perfect our writing?
Pin ItWriting Craft: Master List of Line Editing Skills
Learn what skills to study with my master list of Line Editing skills. What craft skills do we need to understand and be able to apply to develop our voice and writing?
Pin ItWriting Craft: Master List of Story Development Skills
Learn what skills to study with my master list of Story Development skills. What craft skills do we need to understand and be able to apply to develop a story and characters?
Pin ItEditing Processes: How Do We Improve?
No matter our publishing path, our work always needs to go through an editing process, but when are we ready for editing? How will we know? If we start too soon, we’re likely to struggle and waste time and/or money.
Pin ItStory Development through Travel and Inspiration — Guest: Kelly Maher
Writers find inspiration everywhere. That’s one reason why travel can be very inspiring to us. Yet inspiration doesn’t always work out like we planned, and we might need to watch out for inspiration leading us astray.
Pin ItUsing Facebook to Reach Readers and Sell Books — Guest: Christina Delay
For every author who’s been successful with Facebook Ads, dozens more have seen their investment disappear. Christina Delay’s sharing her advice on learning about our readers and reaching out to them with Facebook.
Pin ItWriting Your Worldview: Biases and Beyond
Science can be influenced by societal assumptions, so we certainly can’t keep “social ideas” out of our fiction. Our preferences, biases, beliefs, assumptions, etc. affect everything—whether we recognize them or not.
Pin ItWriting Styles: Transitioning from Nonfiction to Fiction — Guest: Elizabeth Randolph
Just because we’re skilled at nonfiction writing doesn’t mean we’re skilled at storytelling (or vice versa). To do both, we might have to unlearn a lot of what we’ve learned about writing. Today, Elizabeth Randolph shares her insights on changing writing styles.
Pin ItTapping into Strong Emotions with Memories
Our readers often want an emotional connection to our story and characters, but sometimes we struggle to explore deep emotions in our stories. Luckily, our lifetime of memories is the perfect repository of emotions for us to mine.
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