Tag: Fiction Writing
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Reading and Writing for the Web 7/22
Every day I scour the web for articles on reading and writing to further my education about my craft and try to share the best of those articles with you here. Today, I thought I’d focus on reading. One of the most common, reiterated pieces of advice for writers of…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/21
Has this ever happened to you? Today I had as many as 16 tabs open on my computer at the same time in my web browser, and, naturally, the browser crashed. Fortunately, when you reopen the browser there’s a neat little tool called Recent Tabs that, once you click on…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/20
I tried to keep the distractions to a minimum today and limit my time online so that I could do a little bit of writing. Couple of things did catch my eye and they are listed below for those interested in a bit of writerly advice or an interesting read:…
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Book Review: The Accident makes mistake of being too wordy
I like short, snappy sentences and paragraphs. And lots of white space. Stories read faster. Your eye swiftly races through the action, reading from left to right, from top to bottom, the pages turning. James Patterson novels are a perfect example. Most of his books feature paragraphs of two or…
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Everyone’s an expert on writing, or so they think
How-to articles on the writing craft are a dime a dozen. They’re all over the internet, in my email’s inbox daily, on my Facebook feed, and in the dozens of Writer’s Digest magazines and writing books in my personal library. And everyone is an expert, or so they claim. Today,…
