Finding a balance between drama and melodrama can be very hard sometimes. Today, let’s take a look at some of the...
Editing & Writing Advice
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
Writing humor isn’t as easy as it looks. If it were, everyone would be a comedian. For this reason, authors should use...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
Voice: what is it that distinguishes an author in the vast world of publishing? Many forums are built on this...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
When self-editing, authors should put their back stories through a rigorous interrogation, or a vetting process, to...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self-Editing
Do you realize that when an author sends a manuscript to an editor, she is sending an extension of herself? What an...
Curt, Convicted, Contrite
We’ve had one day in over two weeks when the heat index wasn’t above 100 degrees. Patience and tempers run short....
Editing Tip: avoid episodic writing
Episodic writing is inserting a scene that serves no other purpose than to add word count to a story. Remember, each...
Goals and pacing by Joann Carter
“In your heart you plan your life. But the Lord decides where your steps will take you.” ~ Proverbs 16:9...
Picture of a Hero
One of my favourite scriptures is in Hebrews, Chapter 12: Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners in...
Losing Focus…
As a person who is easily distracted, I thought it might be of some use to discuss how writers can lose focus in a...
Writing evolution
Life is ever changing--and quickly. Mobile phones have gone from "bricks," to celluars so small you almost had to move...
Advice to Young Writers
At the library where I work, I've recently seen a number of teens who are interested in writing. My daughter and some...