When I first joined a critique group, fresh from finishing the draft of my first novel, I expected everyone else’s writing to be better than mine. Instead, I found that most of us were at about the same level, we just had different issues that challenged us. As I moved into freelance editing, I discovered that the […]
MRUs Can Transform Your Writing
A search of the internet for advice on how write better fiction will lead to millions of links to articles about a wide variety of techniques that vary from learning the minutia of grammar to firming up your overarching theme. One technique, however, is both insanely simple and incredibly effective. It’s called the motivation-reaction unit, […]
Excellent Descriptions Involve Action
Continuing our discussion about what makes a description excellent, today we will examine the first of the four elements posted in last weeks Writing Wednesday blog: Excellent descriptions involve action Typically, the type of description we think of is telling what something looks like. The problem with this in fiction is that it stops the […]