by kobowritinglife | Dec 14, 2017 | The Craft of Writing
By Mignon Fogarty Dialogue is hard to write and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Getting characters to have individual voices has caused more sleepless nights than too much coffee late in the day. Once the dialogue sounds right and reads right on the page, there...
by kobowritinglife | Dec 7, 2017 | The Craft of Writing
By Mignon Fogarty Should you write your novel in present tense? I usually deal with topics that can be widely applied to fiction and non-fiction writing, but recently I was on a plane reading Seth Harwood’s crime novel Jack Wakes Up, and I was struck by the fact...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 23, 2017 | The Craft of Writing, Tips
By Mignon Fogarty Today’s topic is taking care of clichés. Clichés can be a writer’s worst enemy, and the reader usually doesn’t like clichés much either. Writers from Jonathan Swift to George Orwell have ranted against the cliché like it was the Devil tempting...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 16, 2017 | The Craft of Writing
By Mignon Fogarty When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn’t have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners including Katy from Australia, Kristi from...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 9, 2017 | The Craft of Writing, Tips
By Mignon Fogarty Today’s topic is active voice versus passive voice. Many people believe they should avoid the passive voice, but fewer people can define it or recognize it. What Is Active Voice? I’ll start with active voice because it’s simpler. In...
