Is it time for a MacGuffin?
What kept you turning the pages of your favorite book? Does your novel-in-progress have that magic?
What kept you turning the pages of your favorite book? Does your novel-in-progress have that magic?
When writing fiction, authors can use POV to further the reader’s emotional involvement. It’s a story. How many people would read it if they had no interest in the characters?
Word-processing software makes many strategies available to you, the fiction author. This article begins the Writer’s Journey — a series of three articles.
Would you share work-in-progress with other writers in your genre? Are you looking for opportunities to mingle with agents and pubishers?
Consider joining a writers’ organization!
It’s pretty easy to get tangled up with sentence endings, commas, apostrophes, and such. How solid is your foundation in punctuation?
Do you suffer from blank-page syndrome? Place both hands on your computer keyboard, then take the heretical writer’s oath: There is no muse.