Craft tips for authors: September 6, 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 at 10:11 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. (Especially when we take several days off and...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Language, Mystery, Plot / narrative, Scenes, Writing advice

Craft tips for authors: August 8, 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 at 3:10 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. Here are the ones that we thought were...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Editing, Helping Writers Become Authors, Jane Friedman, Joanna Penn, Language, Plot / narrative

The technical side of your writing craft

Posted on July 19, 2023 at 12:54 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When we describe these posts as being about the technical side of writing, we don't mean it in the sense...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Dialogue, Editing, Grammar Girl, Language, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

How writers can freshen up old characters, plots, and language

Posted on July 17, 2023 at 8:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Our publication layout professor once told us — and we've repeated several times here — that there really isn't an...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Language, Middle-grade fiction, Writing advice

Craft tips for authors: July 5, 2023

Posted on July 5, 2023 at 12:54 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. Here are the ones that we thought were...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Language, Plot / narrative, Scenes, Writing advice

Craft tips for authors: June 29, 2023

Posted on June 29, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. Here are the ones that we thought were...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Historical fiction, Language, Memoir, Writing advice

Craft tips for authors: June 26, 2023

Posted on June 26, 2023 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. Here are the ones that we thought were...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Language, Plot / narrative, Writer's block / writing prompts, Writing advice

The Kindlepreneur on beige prose and kids' books

Posted on June 15, 2023 at 9:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Well, we wish we'd waited to share the Kindlepreneur's post on purple prose, because now Dave Chesson has another colorful-language...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Children's literature, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Language, Writing advice

The Kindlepreneur on colorful language

Posted on June 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jason Hamilton's main focus in a recent post for the Kindlepreneur is purple prose, but he also touches on two...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Editing, Language

Language lessons in English and translation

Posted on June 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

An editor's job is never done. But, in the words of a wise former colleague of ours, it's also not...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Jane Friedman, Language, Writer Unboxed