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Adverbs: Eldritch Horror or Actually Okay?
Since my first post on grammar & creative writing was so popular, I thought I’d do a follow-up series. It’s important for creative writers to know the rules of the language–even if it’s just so we...
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The Museless Blues
Sorry for the lack of posting. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. The short version is that some things fell through that I was counting on, my beloved cat is going to have to be put to sleep, and I...
View ArticleGrammar Quickies
1. Capitalization in Titles. You should always capitalize the first and last words of a title, as well as all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Articles (the, a, an), conjunctions (and,...
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NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, if you’re fancy) starts November 1st. The rules are pretty simple: You write an original novel of at least 50,000 words between the 1st and the 30th. While...
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Verbs for Creative Writers, Pt. I
Introduction Verbs are complicated creatures. They have voices and moods. We constantly have to worry about their tenses. And yet, as Patricia T. O’Conner writes in Woe Is I, “without a verb…there’s...
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Verbs for Creative Writers, Pt. 3
If you missed parts one and two of this series, be sure to check them out. Let’s move on to the more advanced classes of verb tense. Most of these are probably already familiar to you–in fact, you...
View ArticleThe Perils of the Self-Employed Writer
I read a quote today from Norman Mailer: “Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.” It resonated with me for two reasons. One, I’m a smidge insecure about my status as a Real...
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The Best Creative Writing Software
For a very long time, my only creative writing tools were a composition notebook and Microsoft Word. The vast majority of my work, from one-act plays to short stories to entire novels, has been written...
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Silencing the Little Editor
I think we all have a little editor that lives inside our heads, constantly peering over our shoulder and pointing out our mistakes. It’s the voice that whispers we’re not good enough. It...
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Speak ‘Friend’ And Enter: Is Your Genre Novel Scaring Away Readers?
I played a Draenei Shaman. Draenei are basically magical space goats. Image credit: thecatlady via Deviant Art I used to be a pretty hardcore World of Warcraft player. WoW is incredibly immersive...
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