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The rules of good writing from Mark Twain

02/04/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 455 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses, good writing techniques, Mark Twain, novel writing, rick taubold

From Rick: None have said it better than Mark Twain in his famous essay FENIMORE COOPER’S LITERARY OFFENSES . I’ve added my thoughts and comments. “There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction—some say twenty-two. In

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Naming strategies—people, places, and things

04/02/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 395 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, character names, creating characters in fiction, good writing techniques, place names, scott gamboe

From Scott: Naming your characters (and the places and things) in your story can be more challenging than it appears at first glance. After all, they’re your characters, so you can name them whatever you want, right? True, but to

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Writing advice from author John Grisham

06/05/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 390 Views bad writing habits, good writing techniques, John Grisham, rick taubold

From Rick: Shortly after writing last week’s blog on Reader Expectations, I came across an article that fit right in with that post. Here’s the link: JOHN GRISHAM’S DO’S AND DON’TS FOR WRITING POPULAR FICTION Grisham listed eight points. Because

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Reader expectations

05/30/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 402 Views bad writing habits, good writing techniques, reader expectations, rick taubold, what readers expect

(Or how not to piss off your readers) From Rick: If you’re reading this blog post, I will assume (based on our blog’s title of “Write Well, Write To Sell”) that you are a writer or want to become one.

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Common writing mistakes—PART 5

05/09/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 373 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, editing tips, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, trademarks in writing

From Rick: This is the last installment (for now anyway) of my “Common Writing Mistakes” series. I subscribe to a few blogs that focus on writing techniques and tips, and I figured I’d end this series with a list of

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Common writing mistakes—PART 4

05/02/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 402 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, good writing techniques, novel writing, overwriting, rick taubold, show don't tell, underwriting

From Rick: Last time, I talked about overwriting, and I gave you one modest example of it. In its mildest form, overwriting leads to over-explaining and to telling where you should be showing. At its worst, it results in manuscripts

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Common writing mistakes—PART 3

04/25/201604/26/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 394 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, good writing techniques, newbie writing mistakes, overwriting, point of view, POV slips, rick taubold, story details

From Rick: This past week, I came across an excellent article from Anne Allen (whose blog I have linked to before) that points out ten things that will flag you as a beginner because they represent poor or weak writing

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Common writing mistakes—PART 2

04/18/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 376 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, good writing techniques, rick taubold, weak writing

From Rick: Let’s continue where we left off last time with those common writing mistakes I encounter all too frequently. OVERUSE OF “AS” CLAUSES AND PARTICIPLE PHRASES: I feel as if I’ve beaten these two topics to death, but since

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Common writing mistakes—PART 1

04/11/201608/21/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 434 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, editing tips, good writing techniques, rick taubold, self-editing

From Rick: Continuing our series on problems writers encounter, I want to mention the most common mistakes I see among new writers in particular. We’ve covered some of these before, but I thought it would be helpful to see them

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Common mistakes

02/22/201602/25/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 411 Views 0 Comments adverbs, bad writing habits, common writing mistakes, good writing techniques, Kellee Kranendonk, redundant writing

guest post by Kellee Kranendonk Over the next several weeks, I’ll be interspersing Scott’s and my posts with some posts on writing craft by Kellee Kranendonk. Kellee has given us a number of excellent posts in the past, so we’re