For Writers
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Hire me as your Writing Coach
Need fresh eyes on your writing? Have a manuscript and need advice on what to do next? I am available to hire for critiquing of YA or MG manuscripts (partial or full), query letters, synopses, or for consultation on writing and publishing in general.
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Read through my posts on writing and publishing
Since 2010, I’ve been posting advice about writing and publishing, first on letthewordsflow.com and then on publishingcrawl.com. I’ve copied many of those posts to this site. Click the link below to go there, or search the posts using the tools in the next column.
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Search my writing posts by keyword or category
You can find the search bar and archive dropdowns at the bottom of every page of this site, but I’ve put them here as well, for your convenience.
Writing Posts Categories
Writing Posts Tags
- Active Characters
- Adding Depth
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Backstory
- Book Recommendation
- Character Arc
- Character Profile
- Character Voice
- Characters
- Clichés
- Conflict
- Consonance
- Creating Characters
- Dialogue
- Dramatic Irony
- Editing
- Ensemble Cast of Characters
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Focusing on Writing
- Foils
- Getting Published
- Idea Generation
- Idea Testing
- Info-dump
- Inner Monologue
- Irony in Writing
- Letters from your Characters
- Line Editing
- Literary Irony
- Motifs
- Narrative Pace
- Narrative Style
- Novel Ideas
- Obstacles
- Onomatopoeia
- Pacing
- Perseverance
- Persistence
- Plays
- Plot
- Plotting
- Prose
- Reading
- Reading Lists
- Rejection
- Research
- Revealing Character
- Rising Action
- Secrets