The Writer’s Toolkit: One Sure Way to Jump Start Your Writing

Shake up your New Year’s writing resolutions by reading The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Michael Noll. You will be tempted to read through this one in a hurry, but in order to maximize its lessons, don’t. Noll breaks down pages from the works of 40 of today’s well-respected writers and examines them to see what works. The main takeaway of this exercise is that while each writer’s style may be [...]

By |2020-04-09T21:53:34-04:00January 29th, 2019|Mo Writing|0 Comments

The Write Tip: Bigger Is Not Better and Less is More

Our own Mafia member, Lisa Lewis Tyre, is holding a short-story contest called The Bertie for students 10-13 years old. The Middle-Grade Mafia will serve as judges and will be posting writing tips for students in the weeks leading up to the contest. Today's topic is written by Kim Zachman: Bigger is Not Better and Less is More   When writing fictional narrative for an audience of young people, it’s more pleasing to the reader [...]

By |2020-04-09T22:09:26-04:00August 14th, 2017|Mo Writing|0 Comments

What Type of Revision is Your Novel? by Janice Hardy

Not all revisions are created equal. Some manuscripts are clean first drafts that fell out of your head onto the page like they wanted to be written. Other stories fight you every step of the way and you have to whip them into submission to make the novel work. Still others are stories you wrote and revised countless times until they became a tangled mess (even though you still love that story and swear you’ll [...]

By |2020-04-09T22:00:23-04:00September 14th, 2016|Mo Writing|24 Comments
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