February 26th, 2009
This week saw an important step in Persistent Spirit’s development: three volunteers have offered their time to read, edit, and comment on the first ten chapters, and they currently have the text.
For the first time, eyes other than mine are looking over the words I have been poring over for well over a year. I [...]
February 20th, 2009
There are a multitude of texts covering self editing, but few extend their landing struts and come right down to earth with simple, practical techniques. Here is one very simple technique to give your writing more punch.
I regularly read about the danger of too frequent use of passive language in writing. We use passive language [...]
December 7th, 2008
A few months ago, when buried right in the middle of my novel writing, the thought of discovering a problem with the story large enough to consider rewriting perhaps 20,000 words and killing perhaps another 15,000 was horrific. Oh how attitudes change.
I’m 110,000 words complete in the second draft and a flaw has occurred to [...]