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Is Passive Voice something you use Too Much?
Passive voice is something that needs to be discussed. In general terms for the reader, it is something that is not liked. As a writer, we find too often that we are doing this and sometimes it is...
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Murdering your Darlings
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings” – Stephen King: On Writing No I don’t mean that parents should kill unruly...
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How Important is a Back Story, Really?
My novel – which I am currently editing – has gone through so many changes. It is about a medieval society in our future, one where technology has been demonised and outlawed, declared “heresy” by a...
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The Finer Points of Re-writing
When you a significant change to a story, even something as seemingly innocuous as the back story, it is important to think about the knock on effects for the wider story. As I have said before, my...
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Be Careful How You Word Things
This may become a regular thing if I see enough of them. We all lament the poor standards of English in journalists, on signage, Facebook and everywhere else. Sometimes though, those poorly-worded...
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Useful website: Blablameter
Editing might be the bane of any writers life and it tests the patience of even the most veteran amongst us. Yet, it is a necessary evil to both develop our style and to create the most effective and...
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Murder Your Darlings: Backtracking Your Fiction
I’m sure we’ve all been there with our fiction, we’ve started on a great premise and tried to take it to a certain point – maybe a clear idea of an ending of a central and pivotal point. Perhaps you...
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Site of the Week: AutoCrit
If you know of any good websites or run one yourself, feel free to recommend it. I cannot promise to look at all of them but if I find your site suitable for my weekly feature then I will do my utmost...
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I Smashed A Weekend of Editing!
Those of you connected to my personal Facebook page will know that I was away on holiday last week. I will write about my travels in another dedicated inspirational places thread, probably later this...
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When Novel Editing Goes Right
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a not particularly interesting post about editing. Between work and everything else, the last few weeks since that has seen a very determined version of me ploughing...
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