Hottest New Fiction Books of Summer 2017

Last week we talked about the basics of scene building in fiction. You can check out that information here: Scene Building Basics . Today, let’s focus a little more deeply on one aspect of a scene: the launch. It’s the kickoff for your scene. It’s the opportunity to pull readers into the action or hook…

Have you ever used Microsoft Word’s “readability statistics” function? It gives your document a score, as a grade level, based on something called the Flesch-Kincaid analysis, which purported to be the grade level a reader would have to have attained to understand the piece. How helpful or accurate is the function? Turns out it s…