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Why You Should Develop a Personal Style Manual

Style manuals, or style guides (I use the terms interchangeably), are a set of standards. They help us keep our writing and formatting consistent by establishing universal styles. Two well-known examples are The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style. Serious writers should own one...

The Dos and Don'ts of Picture Book Writing

There are general ‘rules’ concerning the writing of picture books. They exist because they are what have been found to work best for small children. If you are serious about becoming a published picture book author, pay attention to these rules. Picture books should: - tell...

What's a Children's Picture Book And Have You Written One?

You’ve written a picture book, have submitted it to agents and publishers, but you keep getting rejection slips or no answers at all. What are you doing wrong? The simplest answer to a complicated question is: are you sure you wrote a picture book? Picture...

Writing in English Might Be Harder Than You Think

You’ve probably seen the mugs and t-shirts that quote (or misquote) the much-used memory tool from an earlier generation: “i before e except after c”. Which is weird, when you think of it. Why? Because the rule falls flat instantly when you consider words like:...

To Review or Not To Review

Without reading the book, one way to tell whether the book is well written or not is to read a review of the book. This is why a book review has an influence on the sale of the book. This is also why so many...

How to Start Your Own Writers’ Critique Group

Several articles on this site offer excellent advice about attending writers’ groups. This article doesn’t duplicate that information. Rather, it offers a suggestion for those who can’t find a suitable group to attend—start your own. Founding a group may be time consuming and labor intensive,...

How to Tighten your Writing

Good writing is tight writing. Or we might say . . . Tight writing is good writing. Either way, the best writing wastes no words and contains no unnecessary information. That is, it’s tight. Here are two examples of writing that is not tight. See if you can decipher...

What is Spiritual Writing?

Humans have been blessed with numerous spiritual writings for decades if not for centuries. Where do these spiritual writings come from? What is spiritual writing? While spiritual writing can be in the form of an article, an essay, a paper, or a letter, this article...

The Five Types of Sources, and Why They Matter

All writing requires research. Some writers might think, “Wait. I write fiction. I don’t need to conduct research because I’m making up everything.” But even fiction writers need to be accuracy, otherwise, they lose credibility. For example, if a novel is set in 1978, a...

Describing the Environment

One of the challenges authors face is managing to introduce the reader into the world they are describing without any image to help them. If not taken into account, it could make the reader detach from your story. Here are some tips for drawing your...