One of the things I notice when beta-reading for new writers is how they approach action scenes. They either increase the tension up to where a fight should be inevitable and then back away from the potential fight or they engage in the fight and it’s a mess—the reader can’t figure out what’s going on … Continue reading Get the Blood Pumping and Write Those Action Scenes!
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How to Kill Passive Voice
One of the biggest mistakes amateur writers make when submitting proposals to Dragon Soul Press (DSP) is Voice. It’s passive. As such, Passive Voice does two things that hurts your story. First, it tends to have more telling and not enough showing. You may have heard this expression, “Show, do not tell.” If you have … Continue reading How to Kill Passive Voice
How to Write a Proposal
On an earlier post by Dragonqueen, she writes a general guide on how to submit to a publisher. Here, I'll give you a live example using my ninth novel, The Ties That Bind to walk you through each part.Before we start, you'll see a lot of services geared toward writing that "perfect proposal." Most of those … Continue reading How to Write a Proposal
How to Plot a Series
So, you have a really cool premise, you plotted out a book, maybe even wrote a few chapters; however, in the back of your mind, you’re thinking to yourself, I want to make this a series. How to accomplish this? Of course, there is a good reason to expand a single book into a series. … Continue reading How to Plot a Series
How to Create a One-Sentence Punch
Ah, the dreaded blurb so small you have to condense your entire book into a single sentence. In the literary world, this is often referred to as the elevator pitch, stemming from trying to sell your book to someone with the same amount of time as riding in an elevator, but without the uncomfortable staring. … Continue reading How to Create a One-Sentence Punch
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