I jumped deep into National Novel Writing Month this year. I had an idea during the summer for a book, and somewhere around late September, I decided to make it my NaNoMo project. The idea: to write a parody of the bestseller Fifty Shades of Gray, but to do it better. The goal: 50,000 words […]
Joe McCoubrey on Style Joe McCoubrey knows a thing or two about writing style. As a newspaper editor, he dealt with several writers’ styles before turning to fiction with his first novel, a thriller set in his home of Northern Ireland during its “troubles.”Joe has graciously agreed to weigh in on Written Words’ Style debate. […]
By Benjamin X. Wretlind 5 stars Benjamin X. Wretlind’s beautiful, haunting and, to a writer, mind-blowing Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is literature of the highest kind.Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is a novel in disguise as a cycle of stories set in the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, where the Spanish Mustang is one […]
Image: Wikipedia Commons Today’s Six Sunday Sample is another from my National Novel Writing Month work-in-progress, One Shade of Red, a parody of (you guessed it!) Fifty Shades of Grey. This excerpt comes from what’s shaping up to be Chapter 7: The Dinner Date. It takes place in a high-end restaurant in downtown Toronto. The […]
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of work that shows severe problems with sentence structure. Whether in fiction or non-fiction, it’s almost as if the writers do not understand what a sentence is. For example: An analysis of survey results conducted by GHI concluded that different groups of consumers face different kinds of challenges, this […]
November 20 and 21 only: You can download four fantastic Guild of Dreams fantasy books for FREE! THE BONES OF THE EARTH By Scott Bury The Dark Age, eastern Europe: the earth has decided to rid itself of humanity with earthquakes, volcanoes and new plagues. Civilizations, even the mighty Roman Empire, crumble under the pressure […]