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Color is everywhere, and it's the easiest way to add a little pizzazz to an otherwise bland description.]]> no@spam.com (Gina Ardito) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/33/1/Writing-With-Color/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/32/1/How-To-Write-The-Perfect-Query-Letter/Page1.html ]]> no@spam.com (Gina Ardito) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/32/1/How-To-Write-The-Perfect-Query-Letter/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/31/1/The-Top-Ten-Questions-For-A-Successful-Synopsis/Page1.html
When an agent or an editor requests a synopsis, our minds revert to those days and we freeze. Well, I believe you can satisfy the teacher and the editor by answering ten basic questions. Trust me. Once you've answered them for your own work, the Ghost of Book Reports Past will no longer darken your door. You'll find writing a synopsis isn't so bad after all.

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After five blissful years and seven and a half completed manuscripts, Gertrude took an unapproved vacation. No warning, no disagreement to precipitate her departure. One day she was there, the next she'd disappeared. Ideas no longer flowed from my brain to my fingertips. I spent weeks staring at a blank page in my Word document. Day and night, regardless of where I was--the supermarket, my son's baseball game, in bed--a voice echoed: "What happens next?" And for the first time in my writing life, no answer came to me.
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Heroes and heroines don't just exist in our heads or on the pages of our favorite romance novels. If you look around at the people you know, you might discover real heroes and heroines share your life everyday. ]]> no@spam.com (Gina Ardito) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/29/1/Real-Life-Heroes-and-Heroines/Page1.html https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/28/1/Put-A-Little-Laugh-In-Your-Heart/Page1.html
"Were you funny as a child?"

"Where do you come up with your ideas?"

I hear those comments every time someone learns I write romantic comedies. These are my stock answers:
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There’s a lesson for writers in all those events. How do you give your reader all the information necessary, in the shortest amount of space, without garbling your prose? ]]> no@spam.com (Gina Ardito) https://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/26/1/Editing-February-Style/Page1.html