by Zoe M. McCarthy | Jun 17, 2021 | Writing
image by slightly_different 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...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Jul 16, 2020 | Writing
image by QuinceCreative 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...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 26, 2017 | Writing
Try this exercise and see if you can make the example below more concise by substituting a word for wordy phrases. Have fun. Passage With Wordy Phrases Greg went inside of the house. He didn’t know where Alice had gone to, but the fact of the matter was that he was...