Our football team had our opponents on the run. At halftime, we were up 32-3. Comfortable lead. So apparently the guys decided, during halftime, to take a little nap, maybe …
4 Tips to Prep Your Writing Contest Entry
It’s contest season in the writing world! Perhaps you just submitted your entry to the ACFW Genesis contest earlier this week. There are lots of other contests coming up later …
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 …
Using Symbolism in your Description!
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 …