Craft of Writing
5 Steps to Stronger Point of View
POV – Point of View. Three little letters are the bane of every new writer’s journey. If we were writers forty or more years ago—now […]
Craft of Writing
Craft of Writing
Edits are Murder
Since writers are notorious for giving others advice, I thought it would be fun to dig up some of the most recycled tidbits on writing […]
Craft of Writing
Five Ways to Stay Out of the Slush Pile
Deborah Raney’s four day fiction workshop at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference this year was amazing. Delightful and engaging, she leaves you wanting more, excited […]
Craft of Writing
10 Ways to Strengthen Our Characters
Readers want strong main characters. No one wants to read a story with a weak one. I knew that. Really I did. Why, then, did […]
Craft of Writing
Fragmented Sentences
Grammar teachers hate them. Writers use them to good advantage. What? Pieces of sentences that lack something—a subject or verb—to make them complete. Fragments help […]
Craft of Writing
Do Your Characters Want to Steal the Show?
Invite the characters of your present work into a room and ask them who the most important person in your novel is. Go ahead, I’ll […]