Not only is Grammarly a great site for improving the technicalities of your writing, but the blog is full of good advice and techniques. Here is a recent post describing three things you can do to improve your writing: Games and Apps! National Novel Writing Month! Getting Our Creative Juices Flowing! Click here to view…
Not only is Grammarly a great site for improving the technicalities of your writing, but the blog is full of good advice and techniques. Here is a recent post describing three things you can do to improve your writing:
Cassie is a writer and editor. She lives in Arizona in the United States with her two dogs.
To read the previous post on preparation (research and outlining), click here. This is the second post describing my current use of Scrivener, an application for writers from Literature & Latte. Last time, I discussed how I set up and use the app for developing a book project, gathering information, and outlining. This post shows…
Writing a book review is, in my opinion, a win-win-win scenario. First win: I get to read a book. Second win: I get to write. Third win: I get to share a book with others. Writing book reviews is a good way for writers to hone their writings skills and analyze how another writer writes. Writing a book…
How Long Does It Take to Write a Novel? (Anne Charnock for Writers Digest). Of course, the real answer is “it depends.” On the writer, schedule, desire, research needed, and many more options. In this post, Anne compares the writing of her second novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind as compared with her first novel, A Calculated…
At Sulis International, we alwasy stress to our authors the importance of an outside editor. No writer can catch all the problems with their own work. We have an in-house proofreader for typos, basic grammar, and punctuation, but we require our authors to send us clean manuscripts (that’s one way we save money and offer…
Here is a brief post on “writing what you know,” the old chestnut for writers. (We actually believe that is good advice, but also, you can research like made and then write that. Which, of course, you then know.) Jeff Elkins shares his experience finding out how to write what he knew, and three steps…
Inkitt’s latest historical fiction contest “Reclaim Time” is now open for submissions! Inkitt is a free writing platform that aims to help writers achieve their fullest potential. On July 24th the site launched a new historical fiction writing contest: Reclaim Time Submit your best original historical fiction stories of any length. And, as always, there…
