Contents
Don’t want to read through the entire place just to get at the good stuff? I agree. Here are some of my better moments (it happens few and far between):
Critiquing
Advice, thoughts, and tips on all levels of critique! Getting partners, keeping partners, giving good critique, etc.
Revising
Tricks of the revising trade! When to do it, how to do it, etc.
Writing
Insight on different faces of the writing craft, including point of view, characterization, and word choice.
Characterization
Exercises
- Thanksgiving Exercise 1: Dialogue
- Thanksgiving Exercise 2: Sentences
- Thanksgiving Exercise 3: Stakes
- Thanksgiving Exercise 4: Point of View
- Thanksgiving Exercise 5: Description
General
- The Very First Page
- Turn Rejections into Acceptances (at Literary Rambles)
- How to Handle Exposition
- The Science of Description
Point of View
Punctuation
Word Choice
Queries
A look into the mind-numbing process that is querying.
- Eight Things Your Query Should Address
- Pieces of Your Query: The Hook
- Pieces of Your Query: The Stakes
- Pieces of Your Query: The Plot
- The Query Dilemma
Advice from Other Writers
A combination of the greatest advice we’ve ever heard and our own thoughts and opinions on it.
- When Your Heroine and Hero Should Meet
- Exaggerating Humanness
- Reshaping Your Story is NOT the End of the World
- Emotional Movement of Your Story/Chapter/Scene
- Using the Eleven Senses in Your Writing
- Representing More Than One Language in Your Story
- Free-Writing
- Backstory: Who, What, Where, and Why
Humor
Absolutely anything and everything that mocks how hard this business is–should not be taken seriously (unless it’s opposite day).
