Zoe M. McCarthy's Blog, page 4
October 15, 2020
Why Readers Left Your Story: It Didn’t Start in the Right Place
Zoe’s book, Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days, is a fresh and innovative refocusing of your novel or novella. Through a few simple—and fun—steps, Zoe helps writers take their not-ready-for-publication and/or rejected manuscripts to a spit-polish finish. Writing is hard work, yes, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. —Eva Marie Everson, best-selling and multiple award-winning […]
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September 17, 2020
August 20, 2020
July 16, 2020
4 Problems with the Verb Go – Going, Going—Gone
Zoe’s book, Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days, is a fresh and innovative refocusing of your novel or novella. Through a few simple—and fun—steps, Zoe helps writers take their not-ready-for-publication and/or rejected manuscripts to a spit-polish finish. Writing is hard work, yes, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. —Eva Marie Everson, best-selling and multiple award-winning […]
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June 18, 2020
9 Paragraph Problems Begging to Be Reworded
“I finished reading Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days. I have AND will highly recommend it to anyone who dabbles in fiction. It’s one of the best “how to” books I’ve ever read.” Marsha Hubler, Director Montrose Christian Writers Conference See the end of this post for more information. If a paragraph doesn’t seem to read […]
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May 21, 2020
5 Tips for Using Personal Stories in Your Novel
“I finished reading Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days. I have AND will highly recommend it to anyone who dabbles in fiction. It’s one of the best “how to” books I’ve ever read.” Marsha Hubler, Director Montrose Christian Writers Conference See more information at the end of the post. I’m referring to short personal anecdotes that […]
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April 16, 2020
4 Tips to Research Props and Parts in Stories
In writing fiction, calling items by their official or common nicknames can make a difference to readers. Especially for those readers in the know. Tip 1 Suppose you don’t know the name for the place to lay sheet music on a piano. Or you have no idea what those narrow water arms jutting out from […]
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March 19, 2020
3 Steps to Write Story Setting into the Action
“I finished reading Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days. I have AND will highly recommend it to anyone who dabbles in fiction. It’s one of the best “how to” books I’ve ever read.” Marsha Hubler, Director Montrose Christian Writers Conference See more about Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days at the end of the post. […]
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February 20, 2020
39 Writing Tips to Take Seriously
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January 16, 2020
An Easy Way to Write a Book Cover Blurb
In James Scott Bell’s book Marketing for Writers Who Hate Marketing, I found the best method for me to create a book cover blurb or copy. Bell says to write three sentences. In the first sentence we’re to give a character’s name, his vocation, and the story’s opening situation. In the second sentence, Bell says […]
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