How Writers Can Trap Sneaky Weasels
This week editor Christy Distler takes on this month’s Fatal Flaw #11 – Pesky Adverbs and Weasel Words. This month…
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Weasel Words: The Cure for Prepositional Phrase-itis
This week editor Linda Clare continues our look at Fatal Flaw #11 – Pesky Adverbs and Weasel Words. This month, our…
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Actions Speak Louder than Dialog Tags: Using Beats in Writing
This month our editors are taking a hard look at pesky adverbs and “weasel words”—our Fatal Flaw #11. Even a…
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Infusing Your Settings with Emotion
Editor Robin Patchen wraps up our look at fatal flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses (If you’ve missed the other posts…
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Writers: Beware of Body Parts Behaving Badly
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #10 – Description Deficiencies. Too many manuscripts are lacking essential description–of characters,…
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Tricks to Writing Descriptions in First-Person POV
Today editor Linda Clare continues our look at Fatal Flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses. Knowing how, when, and in…
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Writing “Personal” Description through Your POV Character
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #10 – Description Deficiencies. Too many manuscripts are lacking essential description–of characters,…
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Check Your “Underwriting”—10 Key Questions to Ask of Your Story
We’ve been looking at the many ways writers tend to underwrite in their fiction. Choppy narrative that “magically” moves characters…
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How Writers Can Avoid “Underwriting” Emotions
This month our editors are tackling Fatal Flaw #9—Underwriting. Too often necessary information is left out of a scene, leaving…
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