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Go Deep! Eliminate Distancing Phrases for Deep POV
Ah, Deep POV, or Deep Penetration, as Orson Scott Card calls it. There’s nothing quite as titillating. And no, we’re talking about writing guys, get your mind out of the gutter, jeez. (Sorry couldn’t...
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A Cautionary Tale When Writing in Deep POV
I love reading books in Deep POV and so when I set out to hone my writing, I was gobbling up Deep POV advice. One of the main tenets of Deep POV is to cut out filter words like “she saw,” “she heard,”...
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Writing Craft Books – Recent Purchases to Recommend
I just indulged and bought a small passel of writing craft books and I thought I’d share them with y’all. The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out As entertaining as it is illuminating,...
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Are You an Obsessive Series Reader?
If you read and enjoyed Book One of a series, do you then have to read all of the rest? I just finished reading all eleven books in JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series–I started on March 29, and...
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Writing Tip: Is your WIP in need of some manscaping? Pluck out those to-be...
Or at least eliminate enough of the suckers so they’re not populating your manuscript like the wiry hairs on a hirsute male. Argh! As my fingers poise over my keyboard, I hesitate. Recently, I’ve...
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Deep POV: Befores and Untils, do you need them? Truly?
I haven’t done a writing craft post in a loooong time and since I just sent Steam Me Up, Rawley to my copyeditor, these types of considerations are fresh in my mind. For the last week or so, I’d been...
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