Editing Exercise: Cut word density to speed reader comprehension
When I read something that is dense to read, where obvious economies are not eliminated, I often get bored and I wonder if the author is trying to disguise a lack of plot.
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Prep: Brainstorming Your Way to Surprising Stories
I'm going to suggest an innovative strategy I use to open my mind up to possibilities I would not have ordinarily discovered. Try this:
View ArticleLynda Barry tells What It Is
The immediate rewards of writing (slipping through "the escape hatch" as Stephen King puts it) are right now.
View ArticleWriters: Get your book done! Hack your life and crush your enemies.
Read 4-Hour Body and you'll live longer. Do 4-Hour Work Week and you'll live so much better.
View ArticleTOP 10: Get your writing motivation back & finish your book
Trying to tough it out so you produce typing but no worthwhile writing is not working smart.
View ArticleWriters: Balance out the sedentary life
The least I can do is get my ass off the chair. (And I'm very interested in doing the least I can.)
View ArticleTruman Syndrome & the writerly mindset
I'm either in a writerly mood or this is psychosis.
View Article#NaNoWriMo: Story stuck and stalled? Try this.
For NaNoWriMo, or for any other writer who gets stuck from time to time...
View ArticleHow to write more, faster, now
Maybe you aren't having enough fun as you write. Maybe that's why you feel you aren't writing as much as you should. Here's a way to write more, faster and lose the procrastination habit, too.
View ArticleWriting Moonlighting Top 10: There’s going to be a pie fight!
Here's a suggestion to add sparkle to your next book. It's only one way to fillet that feline. "Fillet that feline." That's not the expression, is it? But "flay" seems so mean.
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