I am a member of the California Writer’s Club, Inland Empire Branch. At one of our meetings a traditionally published author, Dotty McMillian (she writes fiction under a different name), was kind enough to hand out an article on the proper way of formatting a novel manuscript for submission. It really […]
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“The Overuse of Adjectives, Adverbs, Exclamations, Oh My”
I went to a writing event at the Ovitt Family Community Library in Ontario a while back. At this event Barbara DeSantis talked about “The Top Ten Mistakes Writers Make.” During her thirty year career in the book industry, Barbara has provided services in marketing, promotion, event planning, manuscript review, […]
“Don’t Describe Your Novel to Death”
Writing description in fiction, how much is too much? I can already see the objects being thrown at me as I begin to talk about description in fiction. My critique group has had a “fun” time trying to kick me of my habit of too much description. It is […]