Thursday February 23

Full Archives

of the Editor's Blog and Beth Hill

  • A Novel Ending
  • Add Poetry to Your Prose—Write with Flair
  • Anyone Can Write a Book
  • Apologies for Formatting Issues
  • Assess Your Writing Skills—Turn Weaknesses to Strengths
  • Bad Dialogue—Bad, Bad Dialogue
  • Beyond the Basics—Push the Story and Push Yourself
  • Bitches and Bastards, Maybe. But No Perfect Characters Wanted
  • Celebrating Year One at The Editor’s Blog
  • Celebrations in Story—Marking the Special Days
  • Character Rants and Breakdowns—Let ‘em Rip
  • Character Reaction—Make Your Characters Respond
  • Character Voices Shouldn’t Sound Like Yours
  • Check Your Facts
  • Checklist for Editors
  • Clear and Simple Writing Advice
  • Clichés–Are They Really That Bad?
  • Clothe Characters Well—Choose Words that Fit
  • Coincidence Destroys the Suspension of Disbelief
  • Coming Soon. . . Giveaway of a Free 30-page Edit
  • Comma Splice—A Common Writing Mistake
  • Common Writing Mistakes
  • Conflict—Beyond Arguments and Fist Fights
  • Convincing Readers Your Fiction is Real
  • Creating Emotion in the Reader
  • Creating Fictional Characters
  • Creative Genius vs. Editing Witch
  • Dangling Modifiers—A Common Writing Mistake
  • Dealing with Discouragement
  • Deep POV—What’s So Deep About It
  • Deliver the Payoff
  • Deny, Deny, Deny
  • Detail Enhances Your Fiction
  • Dialogue—My Characters Talk Too Much
  • Dialogue—The Speech of Fiction
  • Don’t Call Me Ishmael—Name that Character
  • Don’t Fear the Semicolon—It’s a Useful Writing Tool
  • Don’t Let Your Writing Be Ordinary
  • Don’t Write the Bland and the Boring
  • Duties of an Editor & How Editors Help Writers
  • Edit in an Instant? Ain’t Gonna Happen
  • Editor’s Lament
  • Editors Are On Your Side
  • Engage Readers Through Character Reaction
  • Equip Your Characters
  • Finding Commas in All the Wrong Places
  • First Impressions and Introductions
  • Focus—What’s This Story About?
  • Forget the Writing Rules
  • Format Your Novel for Submission
  • Head-Hopping Gives Readers Whiplash
  • Hedge Words
  • How Goes the Flow in Your Story?
  • How to Hook Your Readers
  • How to Respond to Rejections & Negative Feedback
  • How to Write a Novel
  • Invite Readers into Your Story
  • Jack of all Trades? That’d Be an Editor—A Reader’s Question . . .
  • Keys to Writing Better Fiction
  • Kill Soulless Writing
  • Lay and Lie—When to Use Which?
  • Let it Flow
  • Like vs. As
  • Literary vs. Genre Fiction
  • Maintain Point of View
  • Male Writers & Female Writers—There’s a Difference in the Writing
  • Mastering Scene Transitions
  • Misused Words—Common Writing Mistakes
  • More Punctuation in Dialogue—A Reader’s Questions
  • Multi-Tasking Characters or Impossible Actions?
  • Must Editors Be Good Writers—A Reader’s Question
  • NaNoWriMo 2010 Has Begun
  • Narrative Tense—Right Now or Way Back Then
  • New Experiences? Use Them in Your Writing
  • No Comma Necessary—Coordinating Conjunctions Don’t Always Need Commas
  • No Explanation Necessary
  • Novel Writing Isn’t Paint by Numbers
  • Novelist as Director…And as So Much More
  • On Grammar and Punctuation
  • One-Manuscript Diva or Working Novelist?
  • Participial Phrases? C’mon, You Made that Up
  • Plot Basics—The Events of Story
  • Plot, Setting, and Character—Fiction’s Top 3
  • Pros and Cons of Prologue
  • Punctuation in Dialogue
  • Punctuation in Fiction—Are There Prohibitions?
  • Reader Perception is Important
  • Recap of Past Articles—2011 Year-End Review
  • Reference Books for Writers
  • Resolution—Tying up the Ends
  • Rules of Grammar & Punctuation—The Weird, Odd, or Unfamiliar
  • Sagging, Soggy Middles
  • Self-Editing Tips
  • Setting—The Place and Time of Story
  • Sex in Fiction—Do They or Don’t They?
  • Should I Use Absolute Phrases? Absolutely
  • Show and Tell—Not Just a Game We Play
  • Single Quotation Marks—A Reader’s Question
  • Story Threads—Tie the Elements Together
  • Story-specific Words—Fitting Word to Story
  • Style Sheets—The Setup and the Benefits
  • Sub-plots, Main Plots, and Digressions
  • Subtext—Revelation of the Hidden
  • Take Me Somewhere New—Tell Me A Story
  • Take Off the Brakes—Write Boldly
  • The Editor’s Blog—Purpose
  • The Elements of Fiction—The Basics & Beyond
  • The First Book is Seldom the Best
  • The First Draft—What it is and What it isn’t
  • The Mean, the Bad, and the Nasty—Writing Villains
  • The Outline Dilemma—Plotting vs. Pantsing
  • The Power of Repetition
  • The Princess Bride—Storytelling Done Right
  • The Psychology of Character
  • The Sterile Story—Don’t Write Another One
  • The Ubiquitous, Wandering It
  • Tips for Writers—The Down and Dirty
  • Use a Rewrite to Add What Your Story Lacks
  • Use and Misuse of Dialogue Tags
  • Use Words, Not Punctuation, To Tell Your Story
  • Using Time Wisely
  • Viewpoint Character and the Need to Choose Wisely
  • Weed Out Author Intrusion
  • What About Adverbs—A Reader’s Question
  • What is Theme
  • What Should an Editor Do for a Writer?
  • What To Write First When Writing Fiction
  • Where Should a Second Chapter Start?
  • Who Needs an Editor
  • Why I Would Decline an Edit
  • Why Write a Novel—Your Reason is the Right One
  • Why Writing “The End” Doesn’t Mean You’ve Finished
  • Win a 30-page Edit—Article #100 at The Editor’s Blog
  • Word Choices—Contractions and Dialect
  • Write for Your Readers
  • Write Scenes Rather Than Reports
  • Write What You Know? Maybe Not
  • Write with Fire
  • Writer’s Block—Real or Imaginary?
  • Writers Are World Creators
  • Writers Need Friends and Critics
  • Writing Basics—The Paragraph
  • Writing for the Emotions
  • You Can’t Hook a Reader with a Yawn
  • You Got My Attention, But Where’s the Action?
  • Your Character’s Code

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