Writing Tips: Could this be personification? Writers thoughtfully try to create “an experience” for their readers by engendering emotion through their written words. There are many literary techniques writers may employ to accomplish this, but today we will focus in on a figure of speech called personification. Personification attributes human characteristics to an abstract quality, an inanimate...

Writing tips are the best thing since sliced bread! What the heck is a hyperbole? Funny, that’s what it is; or rather, what it tries to be. You have probably heard it before without realizing what it is. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that has as its focus the exaggeration of our expressions. Why would you simply say “I’m hungry,” when you could say something like “I’m so...

English can be confusing when the words are so similar... Accept or Except? Today’s writing tip helps you avoid the infamous confusion between the words accept and except. In the United States, the real problem with these words is in how they are pronounced in day to day usage. Let’s start by defining the words. The verb Accept means “to approve”of something, or “to receive” ...

Your senses are the vehicles for experience So you want to write a novel. You think of all your favorite in factors your most beloved books: secret passages, magic powers, stormy weather,  plot twists, and even undiscovered worlds. Sure, these things might be interesting, but are these the fiction factors you really remember, or do you remember something else? You can have the best setting, the neatest idea...

  Today’s writing tip comes from Strunk & White. Strunk and White teach to keep things simple. They understand that the goal of writing, in its most basic form, is to arrive at common understanding. Choose a suitable design and stick to it. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. Use the active voice. Put statements in positive form. Use definite, specific, concrete language. Omit needless words. Avoid...

  Writing Tips: Inner Editor   Writing Tips on your Inner Editor: Today’s writing tip addresses one of the most difficult facets of being a writer - your inner editor. Your inner editor is that critic buried deep down inside you that rears his ugly head each time you have some writing momentum. He urges you to stop and scrutinize each and every detail of your writing. He says things like, Is the sentence...

Sevillana Passion I thought I’d do something a little different today and post a poem that I wrote several years ago. This poem is called “Sevillana” and touches on the traditional Spanish dancer. Enjoy. Sevillana The colors of her dress address, the passion in her dance the rhythmn, lights and firey nights.. the guitar that seemed to prance Piercing brown eyes hypnotize, the lads that...

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Literary Work in Progress I have just returned from doing some client prospecting at a trade show this week, and boy am I tired. It was a lot more work than I had imagined, and its just nice to be home again. From a writing perspective, I have good news. I should be crossing the 100,000 words mark this weekend on my current novel (the first in a series I will be calling the Cross Chronicles).  I’m...

Just write, damn it!The new catchy phrase on the Internet lately seems to be B.I.C.H.O.K. Simply put, (B)ut (I)n (C)hair, (H)ands (O)n (K)eyboard. A lot of people complain about writer’s block. When you are feeling like the writing isn’t coming, what are you doing? Sitting in front of the computer, staring at the screen? Then you start surfing the internet. Perhaps you are youtube, or some other...