A Quick and Easy Tool for Writing Description (part 2) This month we’ve been talking about Extreme Scene Makeover and diving into description. I introduced the acronym FOCUS, a …
A Quick and Easy Tool for Writing Description (part 1)
Extreme Wordsmithing Makeover: A Quick and Easy Tool for Writing Description (part 1) This month we’ve been talking about Weak Writing Fixes and diving into description. Last week I …
Extreme Book Makeover: Wordsmithing your Descriptions
How do you engage your reader into a story, capture their imagination from the first page, and immerse them in a fictional world? It’s more than setting, fashion and time …
Stick with it!
Just a quick writing tip today . . . Stick with it. I’m back from New York City after attending the annual RWA Convention, celebrating with my author friends their …
Extreme Book Makeover: Reconnecting with your Story
I wrote a story 5 years ago that I didn’t finish called Limelight. A project for what I called our “Blog-A-Book” series, Limelight was a teaching novella that put application …