Every week, I share a tip with writers, a trick you forget to use in your own manuscript, but makes a big difference in the rhythm and feel of a novel. Some, you can make use of immediately. Others, file away for that cranky day when your writing limps along and you don’t know why.
Here are the Top Ten Writer’s Tips, according to readers:
- 10 Tips Guaranteed to Rescue Your Story
- 17 Tips on How to Market Your Books Online
- Beware the gerund
- 8 Writing Tricks You Won’t Read Anywhere Else
- 13 Tips for Cozy Mystery Writers
- 7 Tips to Avoid Email Phishing
- 15 Tips for Young Adult Writers
- How to Write Like a Pulitzer Prize Winner
- 8 Tips on Middle Grade Writing
- 7 Tips for Literary Fiction Writers
Here are the Top Ten Tech Tips for Writers, according to my readers:
- Don’t Like Double Space Between Paragraphs?
- How to use Google Street View
- How to Add Accents and more
- End-of-year Tech Tips: Image and Back Up Your Computer
- Keyboard Shortcut for Find
- How do I convert my picture?
- Zoom In/Out of Websites
- Find the Programs You Use Quickly
- Reset Default Font
- Make your desktop icons Big or Little
If you were asked to give a new writer one tip, what would that be?
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 the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. You can find her book at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning.
A lot of info to read. Thanks. I am a 10 year old boy.
I have just started writing short stories and have a new blog. You can read my short stories at https://shortstories4kids.wordpress.com/ Please let me know what you think.
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Congrats to you! I wish I’d started at 10. I visited your blog and am impressed with your style. Keep it up!
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Thank you. I am happy you liked it.
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner.
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Thanks for the reblog!
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Thanks as always Jacqui, you’re so kind in your sharing … will check it out and digest –
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Putting these top ten lists helps me to see what my readers like. It’s never what I expect!
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My best tips? Re-read these posts – a whole course in writing.
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Hehe. You’re the best, Shari. See you at 10!
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Excellent share… I will spread this post out right away and will check out the links in depth… merci, Jacqui. Love and best wishes. Aquileana 🌟.-
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Thanks, Aquileana. I got a lot of pokes already. I always do with your posts!
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My one tip for writers? Bookmark this page! 😀
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Good one!
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There is never a time where tips are outgrown. Thank you for your list, very helpful.
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I confess, I repost these occasionally because they are always relevant. I get in a discussion on a writer’s forum and realize one of these is spot-on. Thanks for visiting, Cecilia!
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Reblogged this on georgeforfun.
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Thanks for the reblog.
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Thank you so much for sharing…very useful for a novice writer like me:)
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Absolutely, DD. We all started once. Some of us several times.
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I’ll check some of these out.
I’d tell a new writer to be patient, because a contract doesn’t happen in one month, you don’t snag anyone with that first query, and most importantly that book isn’t done until there are revisions, notes from CP’s, and more revisions.
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The amount of work that follows finding an agent often shocks writers. It did me!
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Such a wealth of information. Nice to catch up on some of these other posts!
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Now I have to wait a year for the next down time. Maybe Spring break…
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Jacqui, all great tips and invaluable reference source. My tip for the moment would be double, triple, quadruple check all your work before sending it out – errors creep so easily even when you’re sure there aren’t any!
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That is my nemesis right now. I hate when I find errors after the fact.
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I’ve loved all your tips. I wouldn’t dare rank one better than another.
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Thanks, Andrew. Then you’re a lot like me because these almost always come from my writing experience. Scary, innit?
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yes, scary.
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Thanks for the tips, Jacqui. My tip to new fiction writers would be write for you, not the market.
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That really is a great tip. Writing for you becomes an original voice that is what most agents I know want.
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My basic tip would always be “Write every day: practice makes better”
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And it’s fun!
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Thank you so much for sharing all the great tips, Jacqui. I have bookmarked this post, this is one to come back to every now and then.
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I’m always interested in the tips readers felt the most connected to. Often, they’re the same as mine. We writers are a wonderful community.
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Indeed! 🙂
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