Cry Me A River Telling emotion rather than showing. Definition: Showing verses telling applies primarily to emotion. It’s the authors job to show the reader what the characters are doing …
Ten Common Author Mistakes. #5
It Was Raining, You Know? Did I Tell You It Was Raining? A Nor’easter If Ever There Was One Rehashing what the reader already knows. Definition: Hanging on a plot …
Ten Common Author Mistakes. #4
You do realize these common author mistakes I’m blogging about are my opinion only and not subject to any known or award winning authors. I formulated these ten things while …
Ten Common Author Mistakes. #3
Hi! How Are You? I’m fine! Good, Good. So, What’s New? Using dialog to as filler. Letting prose do the heavy lifting. Dialog is the gas to your story. It’s …
Ten Common Author Mistakes. #2
Last week I started this perilous journey. Talking about author mistakes. I hate to even start down this road. Author mistakes? Really? Is there such a thing? I read all kinds …