by Jeanette Taylor | Nov 11, 2016 | Writing Tips
Story Structure Gives Readers a Path to Follow Whether it’s a novel or a fact-based essay, your story needs a structure, a logical flow that’s like a winding path through a wilderness of ideas and details. Readers want assurance there’s a clear direction for this...
by Jeanette Taylor | Oct 26, 2016 | Writing Tips
Show Readers What’s Happening Give Them the Details So They Can Draw Their own Conclusions Readers want to be active participants in the story—to draw their own conclusions, rather than simply be told what the narrator thinks. So for passages or scenes where you...
by Jeanette Taylor | Oct 5, 2016 | Writing Tips
Is Your Writing Project Stalled? First Draft Rehab a.k.a when a promising early draft hits the skids Blog Post by Annette Yourk, Sept 5, 2016 Your manuscript is tucked into its box. There’s more work ahead, but you’re feeling good. You’ve gone the extra mile; tidied...
by Jeanette Taylor | Sep 21, 2016 | Writing Tips
What to Expect From a Writers’ Group You’ve written and rewritten that piece SO many times you’ve lost perspective. You need feedback. A writers’ group, or a writing partner, is the best way to get that. A friend or lover, keen reader though she may...
by Jeanette Taylor | Aug 11, 2016 | Writing Tips
Identify Your Audience as a First Step in Your Writing Project It Determines Content, Voice, Tone and Language Writing is a complex form of communication. You’re speaking to people who must decipher your ideas through the filter of their own perspective, experiences,...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jul 22, 2016 | Writing Tips
Mind Mapping: A Thinking Tool for Writers Try mind mapping (or ‘clustering’) to assess an illusive subject, or sort and organize a log jam of information. It’s a simple brain storming-style exercise. A flip chart page and coloured pens produce a...
