Category: Writing Craft Macaroni

Never use an adverb to modify dialogue. Don’t use words like ejaculate and vociferate. Even better: Completely unmodified dialogue.

“Where are you?”
“I’m over here.
“What are you doing over there?”
“My God, I’m full of methane.”
“Why don’t you …

My credo, divorced from reality:
Don’t brag about your lightning fiction writing pace,
for Slow and Steady won the fiction publishing race.

I recently read an online article on “Book Writing Tips to Speed Write Your Book for Maximum …

One of the most important things, as any unpublished writer knows, is what font to select as their default font while they write their fiction. Some writers don’t even use a word processor. They use a text editor, so they …

As I have mentioned before, the downfall of past fiction efforts has been an overly designed approach. I have written and completed a handful of short fiction stories using this approach, and some of them have turned out OK; however, …

Way back when I was more earnestly learning the craft of writing, I was reading through several different books on writing fiction. Almost immediately, I felt that I was reading the same book over and over again. It was if …