How’s that New Year’s writing resolution going?
As that New-Year vigor starts to lose momentum, how’s that writing resolution of yours going?
Tag: Writing
“Only idiots need editors.”
Ouch. I’ve literally just heard someone say, “Only idiots need editors.” “Tell that to J.K. Rowling,” my husband responded. AtContinue Reading
Why You Should RUE: Resist the Urge to Explain
“…by never explaining her situations, by trusting her readers to keep up her, [the author] pays her readers the compliment of assuming them to be intelligent. And that’s a compliment any writer would do well to pass along.”
Character Voice & Individuality: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
…the individuality of character voices creates, in the mind, a world with two unique individuals with subconscious (or otherwise) agendas, hopes, desires, and tells.
Show, Don’t Tell: Anger, Nervousness, Fear (Example)
Anger, nervousness, and fear: These are the names we’ve given to poignant and complex emotions that can overpower even ZenoContinue Reading
Narrator: Pigeon English (A Case Study)
The narrator in Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English is one of those characters whose voice has so much texture that, asweh,Continue Reading
On I, Part 2: Alternatives to the First Person in Academic Writing
Avoidance of the first person in academic writing can serve to keep your readers’ focus on what matters: the findings.Continue Reading
Why Good Words Go Missing
“My sentence was grammatically sound. So, why did my editor delete perfectly good words?”
For the Love of the Story 