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Monday, July 2, 2012

5 Common Writing Blunders That Can Annoy or Bore Your Readers

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Great post by Kristen Lamb today on her blog, Kristen Lamb's blog   I generally like blogging about the larger issues, namely str...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Expressing Thought-Reactions in Fiction

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by Jodie Renner, editor and author     How do you express thoughts and inner reactions in fiction? Thoughts, like dialogue, need to dr...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Show Those Feelings -- and Reactions!

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by Jodie Renner, freelance editor        One of the main reasons I put down a book is because it seems flat to me, the characters cardb...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Style Blunders, and Stimulus-Response

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I've got two craft-of-fiction blog posts up today on other blogs. Here's the first, on Elizabeth Craig's awesome blog, Mystery W...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

My Recent Craft-of-Fiction Articles on Other Blogs

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by Jodie Renner, freelance editor www.JodieRennerEditing.com Here are some of my craft-of-fiction articles that have appeared in recent...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Interview with Robb Grindstaff, Freelance Editor

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I recently interviewed fellow freelance editor and Facebook friend, Robb Grindstaff, about his take on the freelance editing process. JR: ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Those Critical First Five Pages

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by Jodie Renner, freelance editor     Congratulations! You’ve finished the first draft of your novel! Now it’s time to go back and polis...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Every Scene Needs Tension and a Change

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 by Jodie Renner, editor and author   Do you have a scene in your novel where nothing much really happens, where your protagonist isn’t ...