Sentence Flow: Fixing Choppy Writing

If our sentences don’t have a good flow from one to the next, our writing can feel choppy. But what causes choppy writing and how can we fix it?

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Sentence Flow: Fixing Choppy Writing

Is Our Story’s Point of View Really What We Think It Is?

Third-person POV ranges from the most distant to the deepest perspectives, so how can we tell where our story falls on the POV spectrum to avoid problems?

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Is Our Story’s Point of View Really What We Think It Is?

What Styles of Drafting Work for You?

A drafting process that works for one might not work for another. However, NaNoWriMo can be a great time to experiment and see what writing process works for us.

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What Styles of Drafting Work for You?

What’s Your Non-Fiction Voice?

Even if we usually write fiction, we’ll likely write non-fiction sometimes. And when our fiction voice isn’t appropriate, we’ll need to develop a different style for non-fiction.

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What’s Your Non-Fiction Voice?

Choosing Just the Right Words — Guest: Kathy Steinemann

Choosing the right word requires us to know grammar, consider voice, avoid typos, and possess a large vocabulary. Homophones add a layer of difficulty.

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Choosing Just the Right Words — Guest: Kathy Steinemann

Make Characters Unique with Layering

Somewhere along our learning curve as writers, we’re likely to come across the skill of layering. Layering can help us create unique characters, no matter how stereotypical or tropey they might be on the surface.

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Make Characters Unique with Layering