Enliven Your Writing, Part 1

Have you ever run into really flat writing?

It's the kind of wooden writing you see from many non-writers. Desultory, lifeless. There's no passion at all in it…just a straight narrative. A retelling of events.

It can be a trait for newbie writers, too. Eager to cross their t's and dot their i's, they might lose the energy and excitement in the passages they're penning.

I've even read scenes in published books that seem really flat. It's like the writer wasn't even trying that day....