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If you want readers to clearly see what you are describing in your writing, you must use nouns that are both concrete and specific.
Clothes is the example of…
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An excessive use of adverbs is a sentence-level problem you might find in your writing.Adverbs are essentially a form of telling. As a writer, I have been told repeatedly…
On the run from an abusive relationship, Alice with ten-year-old Oren stops in Delphi, New York. She phones a hotline to ask for help, which comes in the form of…
Shadow of Doubt by SL Beaumont is a suspenseful novel challenging the notion of trust and betrayal in close relationships. Jessica McDonald has the life most people dream of –…
Desperate to escape the clutches of her abusive stepfather, fourteen-year-old Millie Chase sets out to find her deceased mother’s best friend in nearby Yellowstone National Park. Millie doesn’t know where…
Dear Lou,
I’ve written a book I plan to self-publish. I know this means that I’m responsible for any mistakes there may be in the book. What should I do…
What’s a nine-year-old boy to do when he finds a mysterious glow in the place of a missing book in the school library? Share his discovery with his best friend…
Hi Lou,
I received a rejection letter from an agent for my chapter book yesterday. He’s written that I’ve mixed up chapter books and middle grade books, but the children…
Teenage angst, unreasonable parents, family secrets and ghosts – Lost on the Water by D.G. Driver has it all, and more. Fourteen-year-old Dannie is uprooted from her home in California…
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In The Time Telephone, 17-year-old Megan McConnell is grieving for her mother, a foreign correspondent who was killed on assignment in Afghanistan.…
