It’s time for Post #5 of No Edit / No Read (Passive Voice). Writing in a passive voice is something I often struggle with in my fiction writing. This could be because of my extensive writing experience in the realm of business. I don’t know. But I find myself constantly rethinking sentences and actively reworking…
Hello Friends, It is time for Post #3 of “No Edit / No Read” (Showing vs. Telling). (*crowd roars*) Ahh, yes. You may now release your bated breath into the atmosphere, allowing it to surround you and lift you up into the writing Zen zone. Sometimes you need the Zen, because the shenanigans of “Showing”…
Welcome to Post #2 of No Edit / No Read (Lots of Dialogue vs. Meaningful Dialogue). Over the years, writing advice has flip-flopped about the use of dialogue. A time existed where the pendulum for the mass use of dialogue swung incredibly high. Many insisted that your story required large quantities of dialogue (at least…
Hello Friends, Editing is tricky work! The whole writing game is tricky work, in general. And worse –– if the writing has not been edited, at least to some level of quality – i.e. cognizant grammar and cohesive digestibility – it will not be read. We writers/authors cannot risk being dumped into the spiraling death…
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