Writing Tip: Why Nouns and Verbs Are Your Friends

Forget about adjectives and adverbs. Here is why nouns and verbs are your new best friends. “The wearily handsome, nervous, stubble-chinned man slowly and carefully got out of bed when he heard the soft, mysterious sound of footsteps in his apartment.” OR “The ex-con bolted up, rubbed his eyes and then the stubble on his […]

Writing a Memoir: Should You Do It?

With the tremendous success of such memoirs as Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes,” Mary Karr’s “The Liar’s Club,” and Dave Eggers’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” the 1990s and early 2000s saw an explosion in the genre. The boom was seen in the number of memoirs acquired by publishers, the number of titles shelved in […]

Write Your Novel in 30 Days: A 10-Step Guide

If you’ve always wanted to write a novel but didn’t know where to start or how long it would take to finish (if, indeed, you did finish!), this article is for you. It gives you the tips you need to finish a draft in 30 days. How can you do this? One page at time, […]