by Penny Freeman | Jul 6, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
You’d rather have a leather-bound book than a blu-ray… You love to read. You edit emails in your head and can’t help but notice when a friend ends his sentence with a preposition, even though part of you knows there’s nothing wrong with it. You...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 3, 2013 | Inside Marketing, Writing
Close your eyes and make three pictures in your head of your favorite author, then open your eyes again and keep reading. What was your author doing in those three pictures? (I’ll use J.K. Rowling just for an easy example.) Yes, in one of them she was writing. But in...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 1, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
The devil is in the details as they say. And one detail that keeps tripping me up is timeline issues. Now, I know you’d think this would be an easy detail to keep straight. Au contraire. I recently read a twology (I didn’t know they made such things, but leave to sci...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 28, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
When I sat down to write my first novel, I thought it would be a fairly simple task. After all, it was a fiction novel; I was making it all up. But as I got into the meat of the story, I realized that just because the characters, events, and places were fictitious, I...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 24, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
I live in one of the hottest deserts in North America. As we approach July, I think it’s fair to say it’s hot outside. But if I was to describe my surroundings in a piece of literature, I would do myself and my readers a great disservice by simply stating: “It’s hot.”...
by Penny Freeman | Jun 18, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
As writers, we tend to vacillate between being both too trusting and mistrustful of our readers. For those times when we are too trusting, we expect the reader to immediately understand what we’re trying to say, without providing the required background information...
