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Write Something Different For a Change

Do you always write the same genre? Are you stuck in the need to compose the next best-selling romance novel? Or perhaps your preferred genre is nonfiction? Have you ever thought of writing something different for a change? About expanding your repertoire of writing experience...

Improving Mundane Sentences and Paragraphs

It’s hardly necessary to say that dull writing doesn’t sell. For example, who would want to read this? Sam took off his sneakers and waded into the water. Susan took off her flip flops and also waded in. Steve took off his sunglasses and watched from...

Selecting Photographs for Your Memoir Part 1

The impact photography has on any story cannot be underestimated. Pictures illustrate people and events, they capture emotions and bring scenes to life. If you have a large photography collection, you may struggle to select those that should go into your memoir, especially if you...

Selecting Photographs for Your Memoir Part 2

4. Include photographs that show the settings in your memoir. Adding photos that show the settings in which scenes take place is helpful to readers for them to be able to visualize included backgrounds. If you have multiple photographs of the same background, select those with...

Your Responsibility to Editors

Some writers think that the only consideration they owe editors is the money they’ll pay. Not so. Sure, you’re paying them, but that doesn’t mean you can treat them unprofessionally. You owe your editor these courtesies: Be realistic in balancing time, money, and quality It’s said there...

The English Language is Forever Changing

I had a gay time at the party. I felt so gay. A hundred years ago, and even as late as the 1960s, the definition of gay was happy. It was also used to describe having fun, enjoying oneself. Today, however, if you want to express these...

“Fair Use” and Why Writers Need to Know About It

The concept of “fair use” isn’t often addressed, but it’s important. That’s because if you violate fair use constraints you might end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit and accused of plagiarism. Besides the legal hassle, accusations of plagiarism damage a writer’s reputation....

When to Break the Rules

Generally, writers need to follow the rules. Thanks to rules, writers write clearly, editors edit consistently, and readers read with comprehension. Some rules are, of course, strict and non-breakable. But others are breakable, and violating them permits us to write with clarity and power. Here are...

The Do's and Don'ts of Writing Historical Fiction

I am a student of history and a writer of historical fiction novels. My stories take place in a certain era and I include people from history to help tell a fictional tale. In my third novel, “A Darker Shade of Greed,” the story takes...

Ending Your Novel in the Middle of a Sentence

And the final sentence is: “She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said” Okay, so Franz Kafka had an excuse for ending his novel,...