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Steps on the Journey
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Apr
21
What I’ve Learned: Floating Body Parts
Category: Craft, WIL, Writing | 
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My first mentor at SHU had this thing about passive verbs and floating body parts (FBP), so I learned pretty early on to get rid “was” and “were” as well as Floating Body Parts.
Apr
7
Writing Update: Done and Done!
Category: Personal writing, Random, Struggles, Writing | 3 Comments
I finally finished the revision of Soul Cavern last night!
Mar
17
If you only buy two writing books (you’re already buying Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, remember), Self-Editing for Fiction Writers needs to be the second one.
Feb
27
Steps On the Journey: The Elements of Style
Category: Craft, SoJ, Writing | 8 Comments
If you’re a writer, this book is a must have. Not joking. If you’re a writer and you don’t own this, you need to go out and buy it today. Strunk and White’s Elements of Style gives advice on active voice, sentence formation, commonly used words that would be better off unused and common mistakes made by writers.
Feb
22
New Feature: Steps on the Journey - Characters & Viewpoint
Category: Craft, SoJ, Writing | 10 Comments
In Characters and Viewpoint, Card gives you tools to create memorable, fleshed-out characters with their own styles, which is so important to making your readers care & come back for more!
Feb
14
On first glance, one would think that the third of the Story Elements we’re looking at, Objective, is as simple as the previous, Situation. However, being obvious doesn’t always mean being simple.
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