This week! Books! No posts next week as I’m headed to NYC for a round of lunching with publishing professionals and meeting up with friends. I aim to be back blogging later on in June, but I’ll be checking emails in the meantime, so continue to reach out for editing. In my update on the […]
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Careful with teenage petulance (query critique)
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in the discussion forums: Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! I’ll post the pages and queries a few days before a critique so you can see how your […]
How to write sharp action scenes
Along with physical description, clear, sharp action scenes have become a bit of a lost art in the manuscripts that cross my desk. So many writers are more focused on their characters’ snappy banter than showing characters moving seamlessly through the physical world. Precise action will turn a vaguely confusing jumble into a gripping scene. […]
The key to creative breakthroughs (This week in books)
This week! Books! Last week I brought you news of Sudowrite’s new service that will help you write a (seemingly) terrible draft thanks to AI, and in a very 2023 news story, a fictional sex act created by the Omegaverse fandom has resulted in the the AI service being caught plundering material. Yes really. Penguin […]
Give your protagonist something to do (page critique)
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in our discussion forums: Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! I’ll post the pages and queries a few days before a critique so you can see how your redline […]
How to write a killer one sentence pitch (or logline) for novels and memoirs
A while back I outlined the general necessity of whittling down your plot to one sentence, one paragraph, and two paragraph pitches in order to give yourself a head start on the literally thousands of times you are going to need to summarize your work over the course of a book’s lifetime. Today I want […]
