Google Forms for Beta Readers
Identify what your ideal reader looks like?
Ellipses aka Drama Dots
I recently heard someone call ellipses drama dots, and now I want to rename them. Drama dots sounds much more intriguing.
Stage Directions
Readers need to know where characters are located in a scene as well as what the characters are doing.
Writer’s Block, Part 2
If changing your mindset is not enough to get through writers block, here are a few practical tools.
Writer’s Block, Part 1 (of 2)
Writer’s block is showing up because it has a message for you.
How do you decipher the message?
Beta Readers
Beta readers are early readers who give you feedback after you’ve gone through developmental editing.
The Very Sweary Dictionary
I know many writers are swearbears. Nothing can make a writer cuss louder than an unexpected Word update just when they’ve hit a writing groove and all the words are flowing easily.
Pantsers and Plotters
Pantsers are writers who do not write with a plan. Outlines feel like handcuffs. They sit at the keyboard just to see what happens next, or who will show up.
Style Guides for Writers
We’re not talking fashion magazines, folks. In the book world, a style guide is the rulemaker you’re choosing to follow. And for writers in the US, the most accepted style guide for books is Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS).
Punctuation Pizzazz with the Em-Dash
The em-dash is one of my favorite punctuation marks. No worries if you have no idea what an em-dash is. I didn’t either until I became an editor. Well, I knew what it was, I just didn’t know its name.