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Varying Sentence Structure
Do all of your sentences begin with “I,“ “we,” or a proper noun? Do all of them start with…
November 22, 2024-
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Considering Word Choice
Previously, we talked about the need to vary sentence structure to keep your writing from sounding repetitive. In that…
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Use of Transition Words or Phrases
Do all of your sentences sound similar, or are you having difficulty transitioning from one scene to the next?…
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How to Take an Editing Break
In light of conference season coming to a close, I thought I’d take a moment and deviate from my…
October 22, 2018 -
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Editing the Scene by Tisha Martin
When I first started writing back in the dark ages, my scenes were terrible. I didn’t have anything for…
March 27, 2018 -
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Editing the Beginning By Tisha Martin
With my cursor at Chapter 1 in my WWII historical fiction novel, I hit Ctrl+Enter and sighed. Beginning a book…
February 22, 2018
