Show More Details, Writers
carriejonesbooks Showing details in your writing isn’t just some annoying comment that agents, editors, and writing coaches and teachers paste into every student’s work. You can see it now, right? Big…
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A Quick Overview About Point of View
First, we should define point of view just in case you need a refresher. Truth is, we all often need a refresher even when we don’t want to admit it.…
The Big Scary Fear Monster Is Really the Rock Star of Your Novel
One of my favorite writing exercises is super simple. I take a bunch of novelists and ask them: What is your protagonists more afraid of happening than anything else in…
Don’t Be Chunky – Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs
It’s a super quick writing tip again today. Ready? When you’re writing dialogue, make every new speaker a new paragraph. If you’re writing kids books? You might as well just…
Don’t Chunk! The Brain Science Behind Bad Exposition
This week it’s not so much a writing tip, but a writing explanation as we dive a little deeper into why too much exposition is bad. It’s all about the…