So you go online for author advice and get sermons about self-care and the balanced life. The bits about self-care are largely true, while the bits about the balanced life are largely hooey. Ever had children? Health issues? Worked and attended school? How did the...
While writing, I would jot down the words I suspected were overused. Then when the draft was done, I would do a search and correct them. [See image] But no more. The dinosaur bought an app. Like many apps, this one will search for those deadly adverbs, the (mostly)...
First, research and create your meaningful character names.Then, when you’ve grown to know and love them, change them. To ease reader confusion, I carefully crafted and differentiated my major characters’ names in my first book. Then while working on one...
Revisions can leave some chapter too long or too short. You are welcome to use my method to keep track, called “The Way of the Dinosaur.” [See above image of scribbles.] And we all know what happened to those cold-blooded reptiles. Yes, the...
That depends. Is your brain wired for analog or digital? My brain is analog, or dinosaurian. Like some people, I struggle to remember my flashes of inspiration, but unlike most, I don’t have opposable thumbs. No! I mean I’m one of the few remaining...
