What is voice? All writers need to find their voice before they even think about pitching to an agent. Voice is that special something that makes your writing stand out from the competition. Though it can be tricky to pin down, what we’re essentially talking about is the writer’s unique style. Some authors have such…
without blushing (too much) I’m not going to tell you how to write about sex in this post. Instead, this is an account of how I finally came to grips with the problem. As sex is extremely personal, it’s impossible to be prescriptive. However, it did occur to me that a frank account of how…
If you’re thinking of promoting your novel with Facebook, you’re already onto a winning idea. While many agents look to Twitter to assess a writers’ social media skills, a lot of indie authors are discovering that when it comes to marketing their novels, Facebook is where it’s at. In fact, I’d even go so far…
Catchy, succinct and attention grabbing, sentence fragments are everywhere in advertising. Take, for instance: “Because you’re worth it”, “The beer of kings”, or “Finger lickin’ good”. They also litter our speech. A sullen teen, limiting himself to as few words as possible might grunt to his mother: “Going out”. And while she might shout “I’m…
You don’t have to go away for this to work, but it helps. Here’s where I stayed! What is pandemic brain fog? Pandemic brain fog, or as I like to call it, poo brain, has been affecting a lot of us lately. Besides making us zone out and forget things, a bad case of poo…
