Let’s be honest—you’re not writing during the Christmas season. Neither am I. With all the glitter, the Christmas-sing-alongs, the baking and the general melee of the season, congealing your thoughts …
NaNoWriMo Scene Starter!
[So—like you all, I’m writing a book in month with NaNoWriMo! Just to encourage myself, I dragged out this conversation I had with an aspiring author on how to keep …
Allie Pleiter Shares 5 Steps to Meeting Your Deadline The Chunky Way
From Susie May: Hey gang! I’m super excited to post about this cool method for getting your writing done from awesome author and writing teacher Allie Pleiter! check out her …
Wordpainting for emotional effect!
Last week we took a look at Active Description and 4 Tips on how to wordpaint for emotional effect. This week, let’s take a look at incorporating those 4 Tips …
Extreme Wordsmithing Makeover: 4 Tips to writing ACTIVE description
Continuing our Extreme Wordsmithing Makeover series, we spent much of August diving into STATIC description and I taught you a technique called FOCUS, an acronym that reminded us to first …