Naked Lady in the Drain and Why Authors Should Show and Not Tell
carriejonesbooks When you tell, you are blunt. When you show? You are laying out little truths that compel the reader to turn the page and read on.
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Trophy Husbands and Don’t Only Think About the Money, Think About the Creation
Don't let other people's assumptions about you hold you back.
Picking the Writer Wedgie and Transitions
In life and in story, you have these things called transitions. Places were things change. You go from one place to another, one scene to another, one chapter to another,…
Fart Jokes, Zoom Fatigue and Coronavirus
What do you call a person who never farts in front of other people? A private tooter. What do you call it when someone eats refried beans and onions?Tear gas.…
Rebel Reading the Hobbit & Talking Head Syndrome
A lot of time I’ll be reading scenes in books and it will be two characters talking and I’ll only have a vaguely general idea about where they are. Maybe…