Someone was sleeping outside her tent right next to her and how to make good writing habits
carriejonesbooks A lot of writers that I work with have a problem. The problem is that they want to be a writer, but before they come to me? They don’t write.…
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The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Talking about show vs tell at the scene level is a little bit harder than talking about it at the paragraph and scene levels. But it’s also a tiny bit…
Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive
Babe, I know you don’t want to talk about showing vs telling any longer, our massive series, but it’s really really important. It’s sunk many a cool book idea, stopped…
Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes
There’s this really great book for writers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi called The Emotional Wound Thesaurus. It came out way back in 2017. As they write in their…
TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH
There’s a lot of ways that trope is defined, but for us here on DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE, we’re going with the Grammarist’s definition, which is: “A trope is…