Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
carriejonesbooks No Flat Writing A lot of writers will worry that their stories seem flat. There’s a reason that they are worrying about that and it’s one of the core elements…
Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
Keep Writing
This week? This week has been a bit rough for me. But I am still writing. And we are still podcasting! Gasp! I am still doing this because I think…
Why Are People Mean? And The Lowdown on Three Super Common Grammar Mistakes.
In our Random Thought, we talk about why people are mean. The link to our source is at the end of these notes. All you all, I (Carrie) am the…
Let’s Talk The Sexy One-Sentence Summary
THE ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY Let’s be honest, here. Sometimes I throw the word “sexy” into a podcast title just to get Shaun to pay attention. But the one-sentence summary is…
It’s Okay To Dwell in the Negative Space
Wendy MacNaughton on her Substack Draw Together talked about negative space this week and she wrote, “Negative Space performs many functions: it focuses our eyes on the subject, it moves…