Needless words, the weak and the pointless words steal power from your writing. We all let them sneak in during the first draft, so don’t panic – you’re not alone. It’s what we do about them later that counts. Removing…
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From many decades of creative and commercial writing experience, find posts on writing, editing, style, grammar and related topics of interest to writers. Anyone’s free to give the category a read, of course, but most of this is straight-up “if you don’t write, it probably isn’t going to interest you much” stuff. Just sayin’.
Continuity in writing is important to me. Maybe obsessively so. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I catch continuity errors in my own work, I cringe. I mean, writers are supposed to be smarter than the…
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Medieval Weapons – beyond the sword, lance, and crossbow Medieval weapons were plentiful and go beyond your garden variety knightly sword. I love them all. Over time, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of reference material about these weapons that I…
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My desk – my real home, my one true love, a love story A writer’s desk. I suppose it has to do with the “behind the scenes” aspect of what we do, but people are curious about them, aren’t they?…
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Motivation and inspiration? You mean how bad do you want it Motivation and inspiration are two of those things writers lament, cry, and gnash their teeth over. Not to say it’s not frustrating as all get-out as a writer to…
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Medieval Weapons – more than swords for fantasy writing Medieval weapons and those that evolved from them are more plentiful than you might be aware. When writing fantasy and historical fantasy stories, in our often fascination with swords, it’s easy…
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There’s a reason why I write about fantasy magic – magic is my most favourite thing! And I don’t mean only practical magic as a modern Druid, I mean magic of every kind, real or imagined. Although, to be fair,…
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Introverts is a psychological term for people who tend to: “shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts”. (Thanks WordWeb! Which, by the way, is a handy little free dictionary tool. If you don’t have it,…
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So I keep reading up on social media strategies… The kind geared toward writers, if you know what I mean. I keep thinking I’m going to run across some revelation I haven’t found yet. I know, I’m a big research…
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Druid Tools – The Druid Cord The Druid Cord is another one of those tools we don’t hear about very often. While still a tool Druids use now and in the past, it’s not as fascinating or mysterious as the…
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