After teaching writing and critiquing many chapters for the past several years, I’ve come up with a list of the common mistakes I see in manuscripts. [...]
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Characterization, Editing, Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Language usage, Point of View, Writing in Active Voice
 By Teri Dawn Smith, on October 22nd, 2010Language usage, Point of View, Research
By Naomi Musch, on May 7th, 2010Author Intrusion I’d like to introduce you to a term, if you aren’t familiar with it already, called “author intrusion”. You have author intrusion when you’re reading a story and all of a sudden something is said in a way that pulls you out of the “zone” your imagination is in. It might be [...] Characterization, Language usage, Point of View, Showing vs. Telling
By Lynn Dean, on April 16th, 2010“Showing vs. Telling” We’ve written much about this concept of using vivid action, description, and dialogue to show what’s happening in a story rather than simply telling readers about what happens. It would be fitting, perhaps, to “show” you an example. Below is the first paragraph of a scene in my work in progress [...] Point of View
By Michelle Van Loon, on January 22nd, 2010Point of View Makes All the Difference When you and your sibling have a disagreement and tell your stories to a parent, you learn firsthand the difference someone’s point-of-view can have on the way he or she sees the same basic set of events. Your brother’s version of how grandma’s prized antique vase got [...] Characterization, Point of View
By Lynn Dean, on October 2nd, 2009Choose POV Characters to Make the Most of Conflict in a Story “It was a sunny day. Nothing happened.” Boring, right? Stories are about conflict. Unless your characters have obstacles to face, there’s just not much to tell. It stands to reason, then, that for maximum interest you’ll want to tell your story from [...] |
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