One of the biggest areas of failure for a lot of writers is failure to grow their craft. I don't make money as a novelist (and don't think I could) but my writing is still important. Most writers have at least two things they are contantly fighting against to keep their writing at their highest level. For some its things like leaving out words and ( Read more... )

“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”
William Strunk

Diminutive.

Really, i find this word nearly as horrifying in relation to books as i do the word Prologue. The reason for the near omniscient loathe i have for those words is that they are usually used in such a bad way as to drag down the quality of everything around them. In this case we have an author who's novel has been consistent in its use of ( Read more... )