Engage Your Readers at the Start
By Annette Rey
How quickly do you get bored when a story doesn’t get to the point right away? Are you disturbed when the location is not made clear? What if an opening begins with dialogue? Those words better be dynamic, right?
Let’s Find Out
By Annette Rey
Looking for new writing inspiration? Do you want to acquire intriguing information about your own reality? Then reading this book should give birth to new writing projects.
Love Them Both!
By Annette Rey
You can break writer’s block by combining another subject you love with your primary desire to write work that flows. To this end, science facts will get me writing.
On 3/30/19 I posted Will Writer’s Digest Die?, an article informing that F&W Media, the publisher of Writer’s Digest, has announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy and unless another interest buys the magazine, writers of the world will lose a valuable resource.
What do these first two paragraphs have to do with one another? Read on.
By Annette Rey
When Opposites Make Sense
Can Sigmund Freud’s beliefs help you create scenarios for your characters? I think so.
I found an article with a provocative lead sentence. What if you hated someone who you were socially and morally expected to love? (link below)
By Annette Rey
Character Ideas From the Past
Writers should take guidance from history’s greats. Einstein is one of them.
Why do I choose him to feature in this post? Read on and see.
By Annette Rey
A Research Book
I often direct writers to unusual resources to find real-life personality flaws to apply to their character creations. Your readers will relate to these more believable characters because they are sure to have met someone like them at some time in their lives.
Life Code by Dr. Phil is one of those resources.
By Annette Rey
Seek and Find
I took a summer hiatus from this blog, but not from life. A patient has terminal cancer and I have been helping him to confront end of life issues. So forgive me for my absence.
On to the reason for this blog – to support writers on their journey to more knowledge and better writing. Let’s begin.
Laconic
By Annette Rey
Recently I happened to look up the word laconic to see how the dictionary defined it. I have been familiar with this word all of my life as I was an avid reader as a child but was curious as to what the dictionary had to say about this word. Interestingly, that entry showed nuanced differences between it and other closely related words.
It is important to you as writers, and all of us as speakers of English, to use these words correctly to communicate effectively and, by proper usage, perpetuate these words to be good examples to our reading audiences.
A Little Comedy Can’t Hurt
By Annette Rey
For a change, rest from your writing and have a little laugh.
Or Not!
By Annette Rey
Often I tell writers to get information, insight, and inspiration about their characters from “real life” sources instead of just relying on their own imagination.
Here is a good site to check out.
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