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A J Hartley

Act of Will

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Rules of Writing: Show, Don’t Tell, (Except When You Tell)

We talk a lot here at MagicalWords.Net about the rules of writing, when to adhere to the rules like iron filings to an electromagnet, and when to break those rules, when to do something different. Last week, I was deeply into my WIP. Which is still untitled, by the way, and is making me feel [...]

Crutches (again)

I’m going to be away from the PC today, so I won’t check email until 5-ish. I’m hoping our regulars (both the bloggers and the commenters) will address the topic and examples. And *please* feel free to rework any of mine to make them better, or to offer examples you have seen in writing (yours, [...]

Crutches Revisited

I forgot it was Wednesday.  Seriously. I’m a total ditz this week.
Okay, all the time…
Sorry I’m late posting.

I want to share again today some more thoughts on writer’s crutches. We all have them, even bestsellers – those little things we do that make our page count faster but steal much of the power our [...]

Bait and Hook

Last week I blogged on the reason why a first book by UnPub usually has to be so much better than the bestseller by Author X, Y or Z. Question four I left hanging so I could devote a bit more time to it. And it was…