From Rick: Most of us have heard admonitions against using certain weak words and phrases, and I’ve talked about some of these previously: WEAK WRITING: THERE, IT, WAS If you do a Google search on “weak words” or “weak writing,”
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week Scott pointed out that one of the biggest annoyances for readers is errors in a book. Indeed, one the major complaints against self-published novels has been the poor quality of the writing and lack of proper
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last time Scott talked about weak writing in terms of telling vs. showing. We’ll be visiting these topics quite a bit in the months ahead. Writers constantly hear preaching against weak words and weak verbs. By weak we
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