by Zoe M. McCarthy | May 16, 2019 | Writing
image by CoilN00B Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days is now available. See details below. The Exercise Pick a paragraph from your first draft or even from a book. Circle the nouns,verbs,adjective, andadverbs. Circle them. Then use your imagination, thesaurus,...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Mar 5, 2015 | Writing
“Mark Twain said, ‘The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.’ Fill your book with lightning.” — Robert Littell It’s our choice to choose the word that gives our sentence the most power in creating a robust image in the reader’s...