A smorgasbord of superb writing insights awaits you in this week’s roundup, including: Fred Johnson, revealing why modern gaming is far more than child’s play in What Video Games Can Teach You About Storytelling. The Writer’s Ally, with The Secret to Impressing Big Agents and Publishers. Standout Books, offering a impressively smart method for building […]
The celebrations keep coming thick and fast here in the AutoCrit stables, as another of our fabulous AutoCrit Elite authors has just brought his latest work to market! This time around the distinguished individual is author Kyle Belote, whose fantasy tome The Bearer of Secrets (Volume 1 in his Dark Legacy series) is now available […]
One of the most important and entertaining parts of any mystery novel is when the reader is led astray by clues sprinkled throughout the story, ensuring the climax is truly surprising. A ‘red herring’ is an idiom that describes a logical fallacy whereby the reader is distracted by seemingly plausible, though ultimately irrelevant, diversionary tactics. […]
In this week’s AutoCrit Weekly Writing Roundup: Bess Cozby at DIYMFA has some great advice with her Five Tips for Making the Most of a Writing Retreat. Worth a read even if you haven’t had the pleasure of going on one yet! Author Jim Hardison visits Writer’s Digest to offer us 7 Serious Tips for […]
When our AutoCrit Elite members finally get to enjoy seeing their hard work published, we like to take a few moments to help celebrate the success and share the word with the fantastic AutoCrit community. This time, we’re proud to announce that long-standing member of the AutoCrit Elite family, John Hansen, has recently released the […]
An interesting discussion (we think) for today: Tumblr user “madlori” has some line editing advice you might not like. Firstly, before we dive into that, it’s important we clarify the difference between line editing and any other form of manuscript editing… Line editing comes near the end of the writing process, before the copy editor […]
How many times has it happened to you? You’re sitting there and, all of a sudden, inspiration strikes! A new story idea pops into your head — an exciting, high concept outline that gets your blood pumping with possibilities… And then you realize that the real work needs to start. That golden overview needs to […]
This time in the AutoCrit Weekly Writing Roundup: Daily Writing Tips challenges you to engage your creativity and find different ways to get your message across with a helpful list of 50 Redundant Phrases to Avoid. Janice Hardy gets candid about her evolution as a writer, and urges you to do the same, in How […]
If you’re a writer who blends a vivid imagination with the written word to create scripts for the big screen, TV, or even the stage, you’re sure to appreciate sitting back and listening to a good podcast or two on the subject. When you manage to get the time spare, that is! Writing for film […]
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft Horror is not just a remarkably diverse and visceral genre within which to write – it can also be one of the most difficult. The variety of emotional responses […]
