Well, that happened. Time to fix it.
Well, that happened. Time to fix it.
Fight scenes may be cool in movies, but they’re notoriously hard to write in books.
So how do you write one that’s just as exciting as anything you’d see on the screen?
Let’s find out by editing a viewer’s fight scene together!
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has ended, and there are a lot of people out there with finished first drafts of books.
First off, congratulations! Writing is a long, arduous process, and finishing the first draft is an important first step. But now you might be wondering, what do I do next?
Well friend, it’s time to start the torturous process known as editing.
One of the hardest things for beginner writers to overcome is making sure that you’re SHOWing your readers a story, not just TELLing them one.
For horror, this is doubly important. No one wants to be told, “You’re scared now.” We want to see things happening on the page that make us wet our pants.