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 pseudonym rated 19 months ago- From the page: "11. Going for the unpredictable phrase or routine observation instead of relying on your own powers of observation and expression. Editors are turned off quickly by such clichés as:
"She was at the end of her rope. How could she ever pick up the pieces of her life?"...
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- ohmforce rated 19 months ago
- good advice for fiction writers
- FanOfKevinH29 rated 20 months ago
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Jerry Gross has some useful tips for writing mistakes commonly made. Some are common sense, and another explained how to "set the mood" for love making. Very interesting...
- aiean rated 19 months ago
- Very interesting and useful.
 rainnsong rated 19 months ago- Overall, not very informative. It's just this guy's opinion.
- ruscara rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "1. Failing to hook your reader's interest early--first paragraph!--and to keep that interest sustained. Many beginners start the story chronologically instead of at a peak point of dramatic interest--a crucial event or conversation.
2. Waiting too long to set the premise and conflict of the novel, and to introduce the reader to the protagonist and antagonist. Prolonged and excessive use of descriptive writing delays giving the reader someone to cheer and to hiss.
3. Not giving your characters believable motivations, actions and relationships. If you haven't fully developed characters before you start writing, those problems will be obvious to your editor.
4. Convincing and manipulating events instead of having the plot evolve from believable characters acting in credible ways."
These and many other interesting and useful tips for the writer.
- sanroe rated 20 months ago
- A practical account of common mistakes in fiction manuscripts, and what to do about them.
- pseudonym rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "11. Going for the unpredictable phrase or routine observation instead of relying on your own powers of observation and expression. Editors are turned off quickly by such clichés as:
"She was at the end of her rope. How could she ever pick up the pieces of her life?" Or "He looked in the mirror; his hair was thinning and his waist was thickening. His mid-life crisis was upon him!" Or "The clouds formed and reformed themselves like strange and wonderful faces and animals.""
- HomeroB rated 19 months ago
- So simple, yet I see these things all the time.
- AmaznGrace rated 20 months ago
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Help for writers.
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