good writing – Write Well, Write To Sell

10/12/201510/26/2015 Write Well, Write To Sell 410 Views 0 Comments description, fiction writing, good writing, narrative modes, scott gamboe, story description

From Scott: In my last entry, we discussed the use of descriptions in your writing. The key focus of the blog was the number of descriptive words that should be used. Put in too few, and you risk leaving your

Basics of writing General

Whose writing advice should you believe?

10/28/201402/17/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 412 Views 1 Comment fact checking fiction, fiction writing, good writing, rick taubold, writing authorities

From Rick: An interesting question came up recently with regard to authoritative advice for writers. It’s a fair question. With so many books and blogs out there, who should we believe and trust when it comes to advice? Further, what

General

Story, anecdote, or essay?

10/08/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 672 Views 0 Comments anecdotes, essays, good writing, rick taubold, types of writing

From Rick: Next week, Scott and I will delve into the topic of marketing and discuss things that can help, or hinder, your sales. Last week we talked about CONFLICT in fiction, and I promised to discuss the differences between

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Is there a universal story formula?

07/22/201302/17/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 338 Views 0 Comments creating characters in fiction, fiction writing, good writing, novel writing, plot, rick taubold, story conflict, story elements, story formula, story resolution, writing

One of the topics often discussed in general writing workshops is basic story structure and the elements of a story. Let’s go over those first. A story–and we’re talking a piece of fiction or mostly fiction–in order to be considered

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The devil is in the details

07/15/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 307 Views 0 Comments fiction writing, good writing, novel writing, scott gamboe, story details

From Scott: We’ve all heard the saying that “the devil is in the details.” The idea carries over into the crafting of novels. As an author, you can choose to pay close attention to every imaginable detail, which will obviously

Novel writing

We extracted the extraneous (part 2)

05/06/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 300 Views 0 Comments Chekov's gun, editing tips, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, red herrings, scott gamboe, story details, writing

From Scott: In my previous post, I discussed the inclusion of unnecessary clutter in your novels and how this can be detrimental to the quality of your work. If you put emphasis on something in a particular scene, it’s generally

Dialogue Editing

Writing great dialog–Part 3: tags & attributes

04/29/201301/05/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 376 Views 0 Comments dialog tag attributes, dialog tags, editing tips, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, show don't tell, speech tags

From Rick: In Part 2 of this series I said I was going to cover slang and dialect this time. Well, I decided to move that to a later post, primarily because I want to do more research on that.

Basics of writing Dialogue

Writing great dialog–Part 2

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From Rick: In this part, I’m going discuss defining character with dialog. Many new authors don’t grasp this starting out, and they end up having all their characters talk alike. We’ve all read novels where it was difficult to keep

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Writing great dialog–Part 1

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From Rick: As I mentioned in last week’s brief post, Scott and I lately have been quite busy. So, for a while, we’re going to reduce the length of our blog posts, dividing them into multiple posts when necessary, to

Basics of writing Editing

Bad writing habits–examples

03/12/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 348 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, editing, error correction, good writing, good writing techniques, head hopping, novel writing, point of view, rick taubold, scott gamboe

From Rick and Scott: Last week Scott talked about four bad habits of writers. The first was the use of habit words and phrases. Nearly every author is guilty of falling into the use of certain repetitive writing habits. The

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