Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 50: Info Dumps On its most fundamental level, a novel is nothing more or less than the dissemination of information. As such, the writer who understands exactly how and where to share information is a writer who understands the most fundamental skill of storytelling. That’s why info dumps are such … More Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 50: Info Dumps

Most Common Mistakes Series, Pt. 47: Ineffective Setting Descriptions You can’t write a good setting without a good description. That’s the way it rolls. In written literature, what is setting if not description? How do you convey it without description of some sort? For something so relatively intuitive, setting descriptions can end up being surprisingly … More Most Common Mistakes Series, Pt. 47: Ineffective Setting Descriptions

Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 46: Anticlimactic Endings Here’s how to write books readers will love–and yet still end up hating you for. It’s easy. All you have to do is divebomb out of your brilliance and into anticlimactic endings. On some level, anticlimactic endings are pretty self-explanatory. They’re endings with no bang in the end. They’re … More Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 46: Anticlimactic Endings

Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 43: Too Many Exclamation Points! Exclamation points! Woohoo! Yeehaw! Is there any punctuation mark that could possibly be more fun for writers to use? (Okay, so there isthe interrobang, but that’s still kinda the same difference.) Exclamation points are there to help us express our big emotions: excitement, joy, anger, passion. Naturally, we … More Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 43: Too Many Exclamation Points!( Your $400.00 Blackfriday gift is waiting…)