One person said I should write a lot more about the dad character. Another person said that the dad character is superfluous and I should delete him.
Post haste
I have been writing and rewriting a creative non-fiction story for about a year. How do I know when the story is ready to send out?
Using Stative Verbs
A writer in my workshop group said that my verbs in this sentence are weak.
Simultaneous Submissions
I submitted a short story to a magazine four months ago and have not yet heard from them.
Writing from Life with Jane Silcott
From Diary to Graphic Narrative with Sarah Leavitt
Sentences: A sentence is a thought, not a warehouse
Sentences can be large, they can contain multitudes—but not literary litter.
Name your agent
Who did what? If you are writing about people, put them in the sentence.
Sentences: Long is beautiful
If it’s well written, that is.
Going further with farther
Verbs: Avoid the quiet and the copulative
It may sound sexy, but it isn't—not in a strong narrative, anyway.
"And" or "but" at the start of a sentence
Who says it’s not OK?
Acronyms and otherwise
The abbreviation “CBC” is not an acronym. Really.
The order of things
Your prose will flow more smoothly if you narrate things in the order in which they happened.
Living vs. being based
When did we stop living in a place and start being “based” there, as in “Jane Geist, based in Toronto”?
Interview with Mary Schendlinger
Luanne Armstrong interviews Mary Schendlinger on: types of editing, from developmental, structural, to copyediting; writing Geist buys; finding an editor; the term "creative non-fiction."
