There are writing exercises galore for storytelling, such as story or “first-line” plotting prompts. However, there are only a rare few that focus on the quality of your writing. It’s the quality of your writing that sells your stories. So which is the best writing exercise for improving the quality of your writing? The one [...]
Imagery Friday is about keeping our writing hands limber, so we leave our readers with vivid, unique, and very telling images. For me, strong images are a beacon of great writing. We’ve all read them: a phrase, a brief passage, even a paragraph that catches our imagination and moves us there, wherever the writer’s “there” [...]
Have you ever paused as you were writing or revising to look at what’s on your page and found yourself thinking “Oh, man, that is just the right word!”? Somehow it just feels right, but how did you come up with it? and how do you find the right word, when you begin groping through [...]
