Does your narration fit your POV character?
There was nothing wrong with the car’s fender: nice, shiny, and black. I’d not have noticed except the rest of the car was ivory.
That was much the problem with the narration in a novel I just critiqued. While the words and the sentence structure were fine, they sometimes didn’t match how the POV character … Continue reading
In your intro, dare to sound like yourself.
Are you looking for a way to turn off readers in your first paragraph? Try to impress them.
That’s what two amateur writers did in articles I reviewed this past week.
Rather than sound like themselves, they tried to sound like writers — or at least the way through thought writers sounded. Their introductions were long-winded and pompous, with … Continue reading