by Faye Arcand | Nov 10, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…
Guess what I did today? If you said I left everything to the last minute and now I have to scramble—you’d be correct. Ugh. The truth is that I’m not as organized as I’d like to be. Ah, that’s crap…I’m not organized at all. Or at...
by Faye Arcand | Oct 20, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…, self improvement, Word Choices in Writing
I’ve done well over 200 blog posts in the last couple of years, and I’ve come to enjoy the process. Blogging is a lot of Hard Work. I don’t think everyone appreciates the time and effort that goes into each post, but with that said, I do it because I...
by Faye Arcand | Oct 13, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…
When you’re writing you need to avoid the use of too many speech tags and adverbs as those will weaken your writing. To develop a character we sometimes forget that the sound of their voice also plays into who they are and how they come across to the reader....
by Faye Arcand | Sep 29, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…, self improvement
Speech tags are like flag posts at the end of a sentence. They contain a noun/pronoun, (a name or he/she to indicate who is speaking) and a adverb to tell us ‘how’ they are speaking. Using such mechanical devices in writing can reflect poorly on the writer...
by Faye Arcand | Sep 22, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…
Do you journal? I’m not thinking of a diary where you list the events of the day and swoon over the new boy at school… Just a minute, I might be saying that, but really that’s only part of it. Journaling, as I look at it, is an informal and casual...
by Faye Arcand | Sep 18, 2020 | Faye Arcand, How to Make Your Writing Better, My Twisted Writer Brain…, self improvement
Writing is words and I like to play with new ones. Some are a challenge but that makes life interesting. I’ll introduce and define FIVE new words. Try and use them in your writing. Let me know how it goes. Starting at the very beginning of course…Here are...
