by Jeanette Taylor | Feb 10, 2015 | Writing Tips
Writing Choices, Expectations, Conventions & Perils. What is your Genre? Novel The author creates a fictional world through imagination, creativity, design AND reality. Researches for accuracy, authenticity and believability. Must examine yourself and your...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jan 26, 2015 | BC History Tales, Writing Tips
Photographs as a Research Source for Historical Writing Photographs can be an inspiration can be rich with details, but we tend to pass them over as a superficial source that give no more than a vague sense of a time or place. Take a closer look. Photographs can be...
by Jeanette Taylor | Jan 15, 2015 | Writing Tips
What to Include in the Opening Scene of your Memoir, Family History, Biography or Fiction This is a continuation of several posts on this subject. Somewhere in the first page or two you’ll want to include a scene. This is where the reader gets dropped into the action...
by Jeanette Taylor | Dec 28, 2014 | Writing Tips
What to Include in the Start of a Narrative Here are some random thoughts about what to consider when getting set to write the opening chapter of your nonfiction narrative. For some tips on the pre-writing stage, leading up to writing that all-important opener, see...
by Jeanette Taylor | Dec 21, 2014 | Writing Tips
The First Steps to Writing Nonfiction There’s a lot riding on the first chapter of your nonfiction narrative. You want it to snap with energy, life and intrigue and you want to hook readers right from the start. To do that you need to know your story and characters...
by Jeanette Taylor | Oct 28, 2014 | Writing Tips
Peer Review and Feedback – What’s it all about? Writing powerful well-crafted stories is a life’s work. Like any demanding job with high standards, sometimes we need some help from the side. Guided peer review can provide that helping hand. However, trepidation around...
