by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 19, 2022 | Writing
Image by Markus Spiske from Pixabay Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days is chock-full of practical techniques. Numerous examples clarify problem areas and provide workable solutions. The action steps and blah busters McCarthy suggests will help you improve...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Apr 15, 2021 | Writing
Zoe has developed a guiding resource for beginning writers. Her method is designed for brainstorming, shaping, and revising an early draft of a manuscript. General and specific tips are offered for applying rules of writing to enhance one’s story for a workable...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 15, 2020 | Writing
Zoe’s book, Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days, is a fresh and innovative refocusing of your novel or novella. Through a few simple—and fun—steps, Zoe helps writers take their not-ready-for-publication and/or rejected manuscripts to a spit-polish...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Aug 2, 2018 | Writing
My guest today is Linda Rondeau. To learn more about Linda and her book, Hosea’s Heart, be sure to read her bio and book blurb after her post. Linda: Trying to weed out all those typos, punctuation errors, and formatting foibles can drive a...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 17, 2018 | Writing
I’ve blogged on coincidences, and Steven James’s article, “What a Coincidence” (Writer’s Digest November/December 2017) hits on similar ideas. But James discusses a fresh angle. James says that at the beginning of a story, we can capitalize on using a coincidence,...