ISBW #75 - Cynical look at writing advice
We get a lot of advice, and face it, we don’t follow it all. Let’s look at that advice…
- Promo: The Nut Gallery Podcast
- Mur is a cynic! I mention the Writing Show POD Debate.
- Promo: Metamor City
- Lisa is writing again! I reference one of my favorite ze frank vidcasts.
- German SF podcast: Podyssey
- I’ll be at DragonCon this weekend! Come see me at my reading, Friday 7pm, or my signing, Sunday 2:30.
About the Author: I am a writer and podcast producer, writing for magazines and RPGs. I am a wanna-be fiction writer with several short fiction, comic scripts, and one novel sale. Playing For Keeps will be out August, '08.
Josh | Aug 29, 2007 | Reply
Myr,
Did you know that the Decatur Book festival is the same weekend as DC? Just though you’d like to know. Decatur is very close to DragonCon and a very short train ride. See you at the Con!
J. R. DeRego | Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
You pronounced my name correctly
Jeff Doherty | May 3, 2008 | Reply
Hi Mur, I have a whole list of whackable words stuck to the top of my of my computer screen. “Was” is on the top of the list. The other words I hunt down in my rewrited are “were, is, be, been, had, have, very, just, that, felt, really, all, almost, now, somehow, something, thing, it, there, seemed, and, even, as, of, like, realised, started, began” I find that most times I find any of these words in my writing, I can make that sentence or passage better by changing it to a stronger more active form.
Jeff