In this week’s Writing Roundup… Bryan Hutchinson at Positive Writer tells us How to Become a Prolific Writer While Holding Down a Day Job. Daily Writing Tips offer a few interesting creative ideas with Making the Most of Palindromes. Sarah Fox joins Well Storied to bring you Seven Things Editors Wish Authors Knew. Don’t forget: […]
Podcasts are a great way to absorb useful information, keep up with news in the writing industry and hear from other writers. While many of us struggle, given the pace of modern life, to study a non-fiction book or digest a magazine, you can listen to podcasts in your car, while you do the housework […]
Monday often feels like the most dreary day of the week, regardless of the weather… so today we’re handing the blog over to a video that manages to at once be entertaining, humorous, insightful, motivational and inspirational. Speaker Jarred McGinnis is co-founder of literary variety night The Special Relationship, and in this short 10-minute presentation […]
Today in the AutoCrit Weekly Writing Roundup: Bestselling author James Scott Bell at the Kill Zone blog (what a name!) hammers home why, when it comes to your book, The Opening as Part of the Closing… Of the Deal. Author and book coach Jeff Goins talks about a crucial component of mindset with his opinion […]
Employing a professional to do your proofreading for you is always the best option when it comes to putting that final high-class sheen to your work. But (reality being what it is) if you’re short on time or money, dealing with a complex piece of work, or have perhaps been thinking of becoming a freelance […]
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. – Baltasar Gracián It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. – C.J. Cherryh It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book. – Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the […]
Welcome! In this week’s Roundup: Janice Hardy helps you break through that frustrating voice bubble and find a different verbal perspective with 5 Ways to Develop Character Voices (that don’t sound like you). Faye Kirwin at Writerology makes a welcome return with 3 Ways Your Characters Could Forgive… Or Not. Dr. John Yeoman investigates the […]
Previously, we talked about how descriptive writing is a crucial aspect of creating a book that absorbs, enthrals and entertains your reader… But what happens when descriptive writing goes too far? You know what it’s like – how often have you read a book by a novice that contains seemingly endless run-on sentences so packed […]
We’re big fans of our friends at BooksGoSocial, and this weekend they’ll be amongst the headline experts at the 2017 Dublin Writers’ Conference. When they asked if they could take over the blog for a few minutes to fill you in on the happening at this year’s shindig, we just couldn’t refuse – especially when […]
As fiction writers, it’s our job to create a vivid, detailed world for our readers. But that won’t happen if you have boring, generic descriptions in your manuscript. Generic descriptions are fuzzy, ambiguous words – words like: nice good uncomfortable pretty really very Sometimes known as abstract words, such descriptions make it difficult for the […]
