Here are the top ten revising rules I live by as a writer: Avoid adverbs whenever possible. Adverbs can signal weak verbs. Do a “find and search” for commonly overused words such as: just, even, that, really, going to, or whatever your pet-problem-words happen to be. Unless you are writing for young children, limit speaker tagsContinue reading “Ten Revising Tips for Writers”
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Make Barbie Suffer…and other tips to add tension to your plot
Two of the best writing tips I ever got were from Kim Purcell, author of Trafficked during a workshop she gave many years ago at the Write on the Sound conference in Edmonds, WA. When we entered the classroom there was a basket covered with a cloth. “What’s in the basket?” we all wondered for the first five minutesContinue reading “Make Barbie Suffer…and other tips to add tension to your plot”
