“Be sure the introductory phrase can be accomplished at the same time as the action in the rest of the sentence,” Kathy Ide says in Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors....
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What sits between the beginning and end is the all-important middle. Let’s work to make the thoughts and actions flow more smoothly from start to finish. Some great words from...
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As a youngster, did you ever slide across the floor in stocking feet? Have you ever smacked your elbow on what we call the “funny bone” and didn’t think it...
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When we’ve written great words, we may be hard-pressed to think of anything that might be better. But if we take a another look at the images our words create,...
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Each time we read what we’ve written before, we need to push ourselves back into the mind of the point-of-view character in the scene, revisiting the thoughts and feelings and...
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Everything begins, so we usually need to know the action, not that the action began. Not only did it begin to rain, it poured and kept on pouring, but could...
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Bestselling authors may write great paragraphs, but we can learn ways to make them even better. Using an apostrophe-s to create a noun-verb contraction risks a misread of the word...
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The first sentence, the first paragraph, and the first chapter of the book are the most important, in that order, because they come first. If that area isn’t captivating, you...
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Bestselling authors may write great paragraphs, but we can learn ways to make them even better. Using an apostrophe-s to create a noun-verb contraction risks a misread of the word...
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Bestselling authors often write great paragraphs, but we might find ways to make them even better. A great paragraph from The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz: In that self-imposed...
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
