Word count goals are wonderful tools, but it is a double edged one. There is a downside to setting a word count goal. The main danger is that the pressure to reach that goal gives the writer ulcers or panic…
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Word Count Goals–The Cons
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
Word Count Goals–The Pros
I write every day or try to. I keep a journal. In my opinion, keeping a journal is something every writer should do. That and setting a word count goal for a daily practice of writing. I use the journal…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
When the Words don’t Flow
This is not an insurmountable problem. So great sentences aren’t forming. Make lousy ones. Pull the words out. Or push them out, if that’s how you visualize your writing process. If what you are writing is not coming easily, sit…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Word Choice
Word choice is important. As writers we write things. We build worlds, actions, and people using words as our building blocks. We build stories. To do that we need to use the right words. Words have meaning. They also have…
Writing Prompts
Writing prompts are short topics intended to spur you to write. That’s their function. They could be something like this one from Toasted Cheese from March the first, Use the phrase “Like a lion”. This is a prompt that leaves…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
A Word About Pacing
Have you ever read a story and thought the characters should just get on with it? That’s an indication that the author missed the pace of the story. Pacing is the speed at which a story moves along. It can…
Tagged with: active voice, fiction, fiction techniques, pacing, Passive voice, readers, words, writers, writing, writing pacing, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Choosing Your Words
Words are powerful. They can make or break a piece of writing. The right words can shape your text into something powerful or reduce it to cosmic failure. Word choice involves repetition and complexity of meaning that can either enhance…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Put Your Writing on a Diet
Writing a piece is the first step where you take an idea and expand it into a story. Once you finish the story, you are only half done. You still have to look at the piece and revise it. You…
Repetition In Writing
A small amount of repetition can help emphasize points and complement your righting but too much is boring. If you are like me, you likely over used a word or two in your writing. Most word processing software include mechanisms…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Writer’s Block
Writers block is the bane of all writers. You sit there, staring at a blank word processor, its cursor blinks evilly at you. Or maybe it is accusing you of being stupid. Rest assured, that blinking cursor is not evil.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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