Tuesday Technique: Redundancies

by | Sep 7, 2011 | Writing

**Squeak** Sorry, I seem to be confusing Tuesday with Sunday. So, redundancies. This is where you write something, then overwrite it: œThe water completely surrounded us. Well, yeah. œSurrounded is a complete action.  Take out œcomplete and you have a tighter...

Writing Challenge: Day #30

by | Aug 30, 2011 | Writing

Yeah, I read the last paragraph of chapter 10¦no writing (but lots of reading on formatting guidelines¦I think I want to become a travelling writer, all this talk of htm, pdf, WYSIWYG is turning me into a raving lunatic).

Tuesday Technique: Character Exaggeration

by | Aug 30, 2011 | Writing

Because characters need to be simplified (you can’t include every single personality trait), writers tend to exaggerate those traits for artistic effect. No better example can I give than the Dos Equis œMost Interesting Man.  In trying to say, œhe’s a...