As a working writer, I spend hours every week editing my own writing and searching for the most useful tips to improve my art. Once a week, I’ll share one of those tips with you. They’re always brief and always focused.
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Here are the ten most popular Writers Tips last year:
- Writer’s Tip #2: Ban Weak Adverbs
- Writers Tip #5: Beware the gerund
- Writer’s Tip #1: Use ‘Was’ Only Twice Per Page
- Writer’s Tip #3: Watch Out For Bouncing Eyes
- Writer’s Tip #4: When to Follow Rules
- Writer’s Tip #30: Too Many Prepositional Phrases
- Writer’s Tip #15: Make Descriptions in Character’s POV
- Writer’s Tip #19: Give Your Characters Their Heads
- Writer’s Tip #12: Know Your Character
- Writer’s Tip #8: Don’t Over-describe
Enjoy!
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com and TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blog,Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-monthly contributor to Today’s Author. In her free time, she is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. Currently, she’s editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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I received this from one of my readers. Wanted to share–
Name: Delilah
As a fourty eight year old graduate student. I write research papers for what seems like a life time. The papers they are written in the APA style. I recently started writing to release stress from my Internship at my local Community Mental Health Clinic. Well, as you can see I am not an English Major. So, this style of writing is very new to me. I find your Site very useful and to the point. Thank you for taking the time to give newbies like myself tips to improve.
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Hey! Where have you been all my life? Your site is fantastic! I’ve had writer’s block for over 35 years and can feel the bonds unraveling at first glance. Each tip is on the mark! My mind is energized with descriptive words and imagination. Next, is up to me.
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Aren’t you a ray of sunshine? Thanks for dropping by, Walt. I hope I can live up to your first visit!
By: Jacqui on February 28, 2011
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Jacqui,
Happy New Year! I’ve rolled up my sleeves and I’m deep into revising!
Exciting, but not without a few hurdles. I’ve changed the novel from 3rd person narrative, to first person present. It is a middle-grade novel, and
to me it feels better. My question is, what are the caveats of writing in
first person??
By: Kate Lynch on January 5, 2012
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First person is supposed to be the most intimate, allowing the reader the closest contact with your POV character. That sounds well-suited for middle school. It is not without its challenges, though. When in first person, you can never go into another character’s head which means all action is through the eyes of your POV character.
I’m going to post this on my blog to get insights from my readers. Kate, there’s no link on your name so please check back over the next few weeks to see what the response is. It’s nice to hear from you again!
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