Comments on: Tips from writers, for writers

By: Mike Hoogland

Mike Hoogland — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:21:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing D.C. Number one is especially crucial.

By: D. C. DaCosta

D. C. DaCosta — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 04:24:05 +0000

For what they may be worth, here are my own personal rules for writing:
1. Whenever possible, show, don’t tell.
2. Make every word count. (This doesn’t mean you have to be spare and non-descriptive — just don’t waste the reader’s time.)
3. Let the reader fill in his own details, especially as to the appearance of people or the setting.
4. No matter how good it is, if the episode neither advances the plot nor provides new information about the characters…out it goes!
5. Never throw anything away. Whatever you excise under #4, above, can usually be recycled for another character in another story.

By: Mike Hoogland

Mike Hoogland — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:34:26 +0000

I know, I have to read ON WRITING! Thank you for the suggestion–I will definitely check out SALEM’S LOT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:38:56 +0000

OK< I just dropped in here to get some jerky and Mountain Dew on my way back to Death Valley and you're going to make me miss my train-but drop everything you're doing and read Stephen King's ON WRITING immediately-and then read SALEMS LOT just for the fact that it's a completely outrageous idea set in the real-time 70's which he actually makes beleivable. It's also like Led Zeppelin II-done early and in the zone before he grew up and grew up, rehabed, and became ashamed of horror. There, I'm done-lifting off & gone….