I enjoy reading Ray Rhamey’s articles over at Flogging the Quill. He always has such great tips for creating a readable and satisfying story. His article today involves avoiding the use of “conclusion words.” These are essentially descriptive words that leave it up to the reader to the form a mental image – words like ‘magnificent’, [...]
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Flogging the Quill: Don’t get me started
Flogging the Quill: Don’t get me started
It’s always fun to find a good, constructive article pointing out some to-be-avoided subtleties that we all tend to unconsciously write into our stories. Ray Rhamey, over at Flogging the Quill touches nicely on two more things to watch out for in our writing – “started/began to” and “with.” I’m not [...]