Tag: writing tips
How to Deal with Feedback
Feedback is one of my professional specialisms: for twenty years as part of my education work I’ve worked with teachers and school leaders about the business of providing and receiving it. According to all the research, feedback should be: • Specific • Related to clear, agreed criteria • Timely • Constructive • Descriptive rather than […]
Ten Ways to Get Writing
It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s very windy/snowy/rainy/* (*delete as appropriate). It’s 9am and you’re staring at a blank screen and wishing that pesky little cursor would stop hopefully winking at you and write your book all by itself. Maybe I’ll just make another pot of coffee before I start, you say. Perhaps I’ll just write […]
Handy Writing Tips
Julie Tetel Andresen teaches linguistics at Duke University. In addition to her academic writing, she is the author of over 20 romance novels. She offered to share with Women Writers Women Books what she has learned in over 20 years of living a writing life. Handy Writing Tips i. Find a writer whose work you […]
You’re a Writer. Now Act Like One!
My entire life had been in a single large city. I loved the important hustle of the daytime and the somewhat dangerous excitement of the night. Art and fabulous food fed my deeper cravings. Still, I always felt that my forever life was waiting for me somewhere drastically different. On impulse, I moved to San Diego, […]
Writing Fiction, Building blocks
I expect I am the same as many writers in that I love writing, but I don’t find it easy. Some days it feels almost impossible to get the words down, and yet, if you are to deliver a novel that is exactly what you must do. A professional produces even when they feel as […]
How to Avoid Writer’s Arse
As a full-time writer, I’m lucky that I don’t need to go out to work – or brush my hair, get dressed, and endure getting up close and personal with someone’s armpit on the Tube. No, I can roll right out of bed, throw on my fluffy slippers and robe, and head straight to my […]
Wordsmithing: Go For It
Words. Individually they’re just symbols on a page. Meaningless, really. But when you string them together into a sentence that conjures up feelings and images, THEN you have something. That’s what I call creative wordsmithing. We’re all capable of it if you put forth a little effort. True, some are better at it than others, […]
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