Writing Vacation

I officially went on vacation this week, and it’s been wonderful. Sleeping in so late that Publisher’s Lunch is waiting in my inbox when I wake, filling the house with Christmas cookie smells, coercing my mother into doing my laundry for me…it is the quintessential college break. But the best part is the writing. I’ve … Continue reading »

Dialogue

I’ve been reading a lot of submissions recently with bad dialogue and, unfortunately, that mistake is enough to make me reject a manuscript. There seem to be three main ways in which writers err with dialogue. First, they use it to dump back story. This is very tempting and also a very big no-no. Back … Continue reading »