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Professional book editing for fiction and nonfiction writers. Writing help: Dangling participles. October 6, 2016. Writers must make sure that descriptive phrases modify what they’re supposed to modify. Scribes must pay particular attention to sentences that begin with verbs that end with. Participial phrases), which often lead many writers to construct sentences with a misplaced modifier called oh, horrors! Here’s a sentence that contains a misplaced modifier (a dangling participle):. View thayerlit@gma...
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Professional book editing for fiction and nonfiction writers. Fiction writing tips: Description of the setting. December 16, 2016. Note all the sensory details that Dold used. What do I mean by the most significant details? Let’s say that you and your spouse go to have dinner at the home of new friends. If you had to write about this experience and describe their home, what would you choose to mention? That they had a couch and a recliner and a big flat-screen TV in the living room? Do this exercise: Dri...
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Professional book editing for fiction and nonfiction writers. These are just a few of the many books I have edited. I have worked on a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books over the years, but I specialize in genre fiction, including action/adventure, mystery/detective, suspense/thrillers, horror, and crime. I also edit historical, young adult, and general fiction, plus nonfiction books of various kinds. Follow Blog via Email. View thayerlit@gmail.com’s profile on Facebook. Send to Email Address.
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Professional book editing for fiction and nonfiction writers. Writing tip: Inanimate objects should not possess. October 25, 2015. July 7, 2016. One rule of grammar that is easily overlooked says that writers should not ascribe possession to inanimate things like buildings. Example:. The hospital’s wide double doors. This example isn’t nearly as clumsy as one I caught in an unpublished short story once, where the writer used the phrase. He spent a week’s salary on computer games. October 19, 2015. Note o...
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Professional book editing for fiction and nonfiction writers. Fiction writing tips: Description of the setting. December 16, 2016. Note all the sensory details that Dold used. What do I mean by the most significant details? Let’s say that you and your spouse go to have dinner at the home of new friends. If you had to write about this experience and describe their home, what would you choose to mention? That they had a couch and a recliner and a big flat-screen TV in the living room? Do this exercise: Dri...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: “Began to” and “started to”
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, July 5, 2015. 8220;Began to” and “started to”. I find sentences like the following one in most novels written by novice writers. She started to run across the street. You wouldn’t say, “The bomb started to explode,” would you? I certainly hope not. You’d say, “The bomb exploded.”. How to write a novel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Book Editing Site. Don’t dangle your participle at me, buddy! Beware the run-on sentence. The perils of "-ing disease". Many write...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: Verbs are moody little buggers
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Verbs are moody little buggers. Verbs have three "moods"—indicative, subjunctive, and imperative. The most common is the indicative mood. You are using the indicative mood when you make a simple statement:. I know the window was shut. (indicative mood). Where the indicative mood tells, the imperative commands, and the subjunctive wishes or speculates:. Shut the window. (imperative mood). I wish the window were shut. (subjunctive mood). The changing of was.
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An Editor Talks to Writers: May 2015
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, May 31, 2015. My book editing website. How to write a novel. Sunday, May 24, 2015. Indirect or summary dialogue. You don’t want to miss any opportunities to present dialogue. Sometimes, though, you should not present dialogue directly; instead, you should present it indirectly, meaning that it should be summarized, a.k.a., paraphrased. For example, two people meet and say something like this:. 8220;Hi, Bob. How are you doing today? 8212; Elmore Leonard, Cuba Libre.
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An Editor Talks to Writers: Using the semicolon
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Monday, July 20, 2015. When you place a semicolon in a sentence, remember that you must have an independent clause both before and after the semicolon and that the ideas expressed in both main clauses should be closely related. Example:. I like you; you’re nice. Also remember that the semicolon is always used before a conjunctive adverb that introduces a second independent clause. Example:. Her arguments sounded convincing; therefore, the majority voted for her. When you place...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: Pronoun agreement
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, June 21, 2015. A pronoun must agree in number with its antecedent. They must both be either singular or plural. Look at this sentence:. This happens to everyone whether they choose to believe it or not. Here the pronoun they must agree with its antecedent, everyone. But they is plural, and everyone is singular (everyone means “every single one”). Uh-oh! 8220;Everyone was blowing their nose”? 8220;Everyone was blowing their noses”? An employee who thinks that he or she ...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: He spewed?
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, July 12, 2015. One of my clients asked me this question:. Using the word said. After a line of dialogue all the time seems boring. Why can’t I use more descriptive verbs? Using attribution verbs like gasped, laughed, spat, croaked, rasped, barked. And even (oh God please no) ejaculated. And many others of their ilk is unnecessary and redolent of the work of amateurs and writers of pulp fiction. Speakers don’t gasp or spit or laugh a line, they say. As long as they aren...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: Scene construction
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, August 31, 2014. Many of the scenes I see written by first novelists lack structure, development, and purpose. They seem to be the result of the writer’s thinking, “Oh, I guess I’ll start a scene here” and “Well, I guess I’ll end the scene now.” That’s not what you should do. Ya gotta have a plan, Stan. This is the basic, age-old dramatic structure that Aristotle first called the “narrative arc.” Instead of using the terms beginning. The SCENE’S PURPOSE is to:. Do all ...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: June 2015
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, June 21, 2015. A pronoun must agree in number with its antecedent. They must both be either singular or plural. Look at this sentence:. This happens to everyone whether they choose to believe it or not. Here the pronoun they must agree with its antecedent, everyone. But they is plural, and everyone is singular (everyone means “every single one”). Uh-oh! 8220;Everyone was blowing their nose”? 8220;Everyone was blowing their noses”? An employee who thinks that he or she ...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Tip: Similes and metaphors are best when they are a natural part of a character’s environment. If you’re writing a western, for instance, you shouldn’t say, “He looked like a New York City street peddler.”. Here are some fresh and effective similes:. 8220;Tom felt weighed and measured as neatly as a goose on market day.”. 8220;The crew got as skittery as water on a hot griddle.”. J Michael Straczynski, “We K...
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An Editor Talks to Writers: July 2015
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An Editor Talks to Writers. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Beware the run-on sentence. Any native English speaker who writes a run-on sentence is either (1) someone who was raised by wolves, (2) a tadpole in disguise, (3) a Scientologist, (4) a communist, or (5) an exiled member of an alien species. So beware. If you are any of these things, you don’t want your family to know about it. Example of a run-on sentence:. Kelly likes to cook she makes something different every day. Kelly likes to cook. Monday, July 20...
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