Emotional Impact: The Secret to Great Writing
Emotional Impact Makes the Story Everyone wants to know the secret to great writing. There’s one overriding fact about writing …Read More

Redundancies—A No-no For Writers
Beware Redundant Word Groups Redundant writing is more than just saying the same thing twice. There are redundant word groups …Read More

Six Errors That Will Kill Your Dialog
Watch Out For These: 1. Using adverbs in a dialogue tag. If a line contains underlying emotion strong enough, an …Read More

Writing That Would Impress Hemingway
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing, he may omit things he knows, and the …Read More

Creative Writing is Not Reporting
You’ve heard, “Kill your darlings.” Well, I’m here to tell you to “Murder the myth.” Every writer I meet or …Read More

To Illustrate or Not to Illustrate Your Children’s Book?
Everyone who is writing a children’s book erroneously believe that illustrations must accompany the manuscript. They are wrong. The answer …Read More
