From Rick: Next week: Scott does Part 2 of his action scenes series. For this off week, I wanted to give you a couple of articles on a topic near and dear to my heart: Editors. A few years back I did a post on good and bad editors, and last year I did one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: I am frequently impressed with the quality of the tutorials and information from my good friends at Reedsy.com. This week they provided me with the perfect blog topic wherein I don’t have to do anything other than introduce the topic. Point of view (POV) is perhaps one of the most misunderstood topics for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: When you’re ready to publish your book on Amazon, you have several decisions to make, and these decisions are different for the Kindle e-book and the CreateSpace print book. I have published several books myself and have helped several other first-time authors with their books, and the same questions always come up, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: For the next several months at least, I’m going to be busy catching up on various projects, working on some overdue promised blog posts, and updating my website. I’m also looking for a newer theme for this blog since this one (which I still like very much) doesn’t support the latest database and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: From the link below I copied what I felt were the most common mistakes that I see in writing and added notes and examples and the word “nock” to the list. The sentences I added show examples (preceded by >>) of how many people misuse the words in question. My comments are preceded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: While I’m in the process of revising Punctuation For Fiction Writers, I thought I’d do a post on a few tips about using hyphens, dashes, and ellipses. I’ll also discuss the five uses of quotation marks, as inspired by a recent article from Daily Writing Tips. 5 FUNCTIONS OF QUOTATIONS MARKS Let’s start […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: A few months back I talked about the importance of having a strong ending. THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG ENDING Writing a good, strong ending can be a challenge, but as I pointed out in the previous blog post on strong endings, I can’t begin to tell you how many stories I read […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: I had two posts I was working on for possible use this week, but I didn’t have time to finish either one. One deals with creating great story endings and the other is how to read a publishing contract, or at least make some sense of it and the red flags in contracts. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: In Part-2 of this series, I promised a Part-3 to deal with how to create a clean source file. As often happens, other projects that were already running behind prevented me from tackling this third part of the series at the time. For those who missed the previous posts, here’s the link to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: It’s been a while since I talked about verb tenses. The last article that dealt with them in part was back on April 11, 2016 as part of an article on Common Writing Mistakes-Part 1. Before that, I had done a five-part series on verb tenses. You can find those articles (and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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