I’m closing in on the end of my [1] new fiction book and as always during this stage, I’ve begun to think about the editing process in earnest. When I first started I will revise the work of each, I went along. This is a time-consuming and frustrating. My creativity is to promote the advance of editing, at the same time I would like to repair before each paragraph, just right. Occurred when, my Muse go to bed, I believe I have never entered the next stage. And trust me that she has always been a bitch to wake up again.

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing

1. Never open a book with weather. I have not done so, which means that this is by far the better.

2. Avoid prologues. Okay, so I know that I am not on the success rate of. I just didn’t think I’d get voted off the island this quickly. My [2] fiction novel download opens with a prologue. Leonard went on to say that “They can be annoying.” I can certainly understand where he is coming from and almost took out the prologue in HERETIC just for that reason. In the end, I decided to leave it as I wanted to include some background information into the storyline before the reader meets the main characters. I did manage to resist the temptation while writing the sequel, A SCREAM OF ANGELS.

3. Do not use the verb is not “that” engage in a dialogue. I fully agree with this statement, and do my best to avoid temptation, or else. I think this is one of the most common mistakes new writers fall into and it can certainly pull the reader right out of the text. Recently, I spent the whole coaching group meetings, client writers to deal with this problem just now. I still occasionally a victim of its own, but it will be a serious mistake which I will be scouring the work currently under way, once I enter the editing phase.

4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said” . . . Frankly, I suck at this. I’m getting better, but this one has plagued me for years and it is something I have to keep reminding myself about on a regular basis.

5. Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.” I think I’m guilty of both, especially the first one. I’ve been more cognizant of “suddenly” in my more recent work, but I know my [3] top thriller novels was plagued with it. “Everything has become a mess” too platitudinous anyone can use, the type of terror, even if we.