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- Lucinda, thank you for this, especially the issue with adjectives and adverbs. I kno...the way to completion and I try to stay focused on the excess. Editing helps to tone down. Thanks for the reminder...
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In Between ProjectsThanks, Brooke! Always a concern for memoir writers. I had a tip from a lawyer who s...e my memoir, I try to keep in mind why I'm writing the story and as Sonya says, tone does matter. If anyone is wri...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsWhat a great article, Brooke. Thank you. Your clarity that "You don't hear a lot abo...t rare" really helps me feel on solid ground. Sonja Larsen, to your point that tone matters, thank you. I hadn't...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsGood advice! When I wrote my memoir Red Star Tattoo about growing up in a cult I wor...about, several ex-members named in the book have written to me and thanked me. Tone matters quite a bit in how pe...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsHi Kate, Yes, it does take a lot of courage to put your work out to people who don't...smart-alecky and in the very first few sentences, the reader isn't sure if the tone is meant to be funny or serio...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsKathleen Kern commented on Brooke Warner's article How White People Can Respond to Book Publishing's Lack of DiversityI appreciate the point about white authors not saying "what about me" when authors of c...outlook in fiction, e.g., have you noticed how brown skin is compared to all sorts of food items by white authors, but white skin...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsRebecca Ferrell Porter commented on Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] How to Create a Fictional Setting by Michelle Gwynn JonesExcellent post. I heartily agree. When I began writing, I was told to brutally cut nearly all descriptive passages...d advice. I write books I would want to read. I want do more than step into the skin...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsElizabeth, I commend you for trying a new writing style! And travel writing is such fun. There are several types...u smell roasting coffee as you sprinted past cafe-loungers? Bring us into your skin...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsLeTeisha Newton commented on Zetta Brown's article [Reality Check] - Interracial Writers and the Problems We Face - by LeTeisha Newton@Sakki The Lynch files and Crow letters were the basis of how to make African slaves perfect in their servitud...the difference between a House and Field slave (and the start of the light skinned vs dark skin...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsVeronica Marie Lewis-Shaw commented on Annie Tucker's article Grammergency #19: My Book Is Full of Curse Words. Am I in Trouble?Thanks, Annie. Very thought-provoking article. I swear. Too much. And sometimes.....that... I confess my memoir is 'peppered' with profanity. Now I know I could 'tone it down' but I won't. I won'...
