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Brandon Sanderson in lecture 13, Brandon's Revision Process (which is online on his YouTube channel), explains his process thus: First draft Continuity Polish Give to Alpha Readers --------------...
You are asking the wrong people. Ask a sample of people whom you have imagined would enjoy the book best. For eg. If you are targeting people who likes Tom Clancy type novels, find a few of them an...
Of course, adding more description might be all you need, I don't know. Adding "space" may mean more than just adding description. Could be that you need breathing room. Maybe the dialog needs to ...
A common mistake when people first try to work on setting or "space" is simply to add more description. This is usually the wrong thing to do, since lots of unfocused description is just clutter. W...
Native speakers of English tend on the whole to write in the "written standard" of their native variety of English. Speakers of different varieties, or at least those who are "well read", are gene...
Seconding Kate's suggestion of the Chicago Manual of Style, and I'd also add Strunk & White's Elements of Style as another indispensable reference.
Most often, you write according to your background. If you are American, you write using American English and if you are British, you use Brit. This is usually applicable for novels and other long ...
I think your distinction is perfect. That's exactly how I'd do it.
I felt this was best answered by examples. A lot of examples :P "Sudden" does not guarantee surprising This is fundamental "show, don't tell" - describing something as being "sudden" doesn't mean...
a good story/novel/book shouldn't have to have a "suddenly" to get surprise from the reader. a lot of times all it takes is timing. they're going along, doing their regular thing and then somethi...
There are a few different effects related to the phrase "suddenly" 1) When describing how someone else perceived something or reacted I believe that towards morning he attempted to commit suic...
I'm going to disagree with your original premise. I'm assuming from what you wrote ("am writing a manuscript... it's my first attempt") that this is the first draft. If it is the first draft, I w...
The great thing about 'suddenly' is that it appears at the start of the sentence, so itself appears suddenly to the reader, but you can replace it easily with something stronger... Start a sentenc...
I think JSBᾶngs’s last paragraph nailed it, but to add to the confusion let me show a German perspective: People in the whole world "love" German for its ability to construct long names. A vanity ...
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Williams and Colomb. This book more than any other helped me write with power and confidence. Also clarity and a modicum of grace.
I don't have much hands-on experience with recommendations. Here's my thoughts from a writing perspective. The role of a great recommendation is to explain what makes a particular person stand out...
I personally don't like books that force me to buy another 2 books to get the whole story (and maybe wait months or years if the books haven't been published yet). More and more, whenever I see so...
Strunk and White's Elements of Style gets a lot of love, although it's also been getting some criticism, lately. But it's more about style than pure grammar. I enjoyed Eats, Shoots and Leaves, ...
Hit Man Just kidding. Maybe "Guardian Angel" since the hitman is not exactly a saint.
The fastest way to take advantage of the current publicity that is focused on Steve Jobs would be to self-publish your book. You can go to Amazon Kindle to get it out as an e-book and have it avail...
I'm not familiar with this "domain" level in taxonomy. That must be a new idea since I was in school. Of course Linnaeus originally defined the kingdom as the highest level, and he identified three...
I assume that the object of affection is material and therefore based upon an element of our Periodic Table (although not Carbon). Would the romance then be cross-elemental?
I've never used Notepad, but can it create PDFs? Or at least print to PDF? Because Acrobat Pro has a dandy set of markup tools which I use all the time for proofreading emails: Highlights Sticky...
Neither of the two words you have selected are appropriate in the context you are using them in. Are you physically having to drag or pull the men back to work? If so, either of those words would ...
The workers tightened their turbans. They picked up their brushes and moved to the classrooms, I remained under the banyan tree, exhausted by my daily ritual of marshalling up the men every two ...
