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Category: Writing tips

Short story tips

March 16, 2020 cheryl

Courtesy of the Bath Short Story Award people: To think about how to tighten your story in order to bring…

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Handling feedback

February 24, 2020 cheryl

Some excellent advice from my great friend Emma Lombard, in this guest blog of hers. While we love it when…

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Short story inspiration

February 6, 2020 cheryl

For the short story writers out there, I found this by Billy Cowan, senior lecturer in creative writing at Edge…

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Chapters and scenes

January 17, 2020 cheryl

I loved this simple advice read on a blog recently – here I’ve summarised the key points: Start with ACTION…

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Reading your MS out loud

December 14, 2019 cheryl

I’m currently devouring Renni Brown and Dave King’s book on self-editing where it suggests reading your work out loud. I…

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Verbal tics and ‘weasel’ words in writing

November 29, 2019 cheryl 2 Comments

This post appeared, updated from the original, in the July 2021 writer’s corner of my newsletter. If you’d like to…

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Posted in: Writing tips Filed under: editing, then that so, words to avoid in writing

An excellent place to start – Stephen King

October 16, 2019 cheryl

I’m into the last few pages of Stephen King’s On Writing and wondering why I hadn’t read it before –…

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