I recently had a bit of an insight about writing productivity/wordage ( Read more... )

This came up today when I was on the phone with a friend - when to use adjectives and “-ly” adverbs and when not to. Since I’ve spent many years writing both fiction and technical/process/procedure documentation, I’ve run into this issue over and over ( Read more... )

Been failing to plug away at the novel, which usually means I need to fix something. In this case: the plot ( Read more... )

The art of the query letter and synopsis is not summarizing your entire book. This is what took me forever to learn. It's about IGNORING VAST SECTIONS OF YOUR BOOK. Boiling things down to the fewest characters possible, the fewest events possible ( Read more... )

Finishing the rough draft of a novel is all about momentum and focus. It's about not giving up halfway through, not giving into the temptation to go write something else when you're almost done ( Read more... )

Errant Dreams has a review up for the Zombiesque anthology, and of "A Distant Sound of Hammers" as well ( Read more... )

(originally published at http://sboydtaylor.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/on-writing-12-so-you-want-to-write-but-you-dont-have-the-time/ -- you can comment here or there ( Read more... )

In everything from sword fighting to martial arts to painting to -- yes -- WRITING, one of the key ways the good get better and the better become experts is to analyze the styles of those they respect ( Read more... )

Well, since I'm actually in the middle of a writing project and I haven't had time to fully develop this week's post, I thought I'd offer up one of my most popular articles, a kind of re-run or greatest-hits, if you will ( Read more... )

(A blog-note first: I will now be posting something new every Sunday! Check back every week for a new article ( Read more... )