You did everything right. You got to the right restaurant on time. You discreetly slipped into the restroom to jot important information on an index card. You wrote a report filled with fabulous details and filed it hours ahead of your deadline. When you received your grade, it wasn’t a 10. Or even a 9. ...
Your Writing Style Your writing style is simply the way you put sentences together and the way you construct a sentence. Style is very subjective. Different readers have different opinions of what they feel is good writing and what is bad writing. Some readers and editors prefer a passive voice (which is usually accepted in ...
Editing is my ‘day job’, so to speak, and the last two novels I edited were too long, both well over 120,000 words. This works for established authors, but not so much for new authors who are untried yet. When writing fiction articles, the writer usually has a word count limit as well. Being concise ...
The blurb of a fiction novel is the copy on the back of a paperback or on the inside flap of a hardcover book which serves as a teaser for the plot of the novel. You probably read them every time you go into a bookstore, but most people haven’t thought about how to write ...
