The Craft of Writing

How to Bookmap for Plot Revision

In her insightful book The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein says, “A bookmap, in its simplest form, is a scene-by-scene or chapter-by-chapter outline of a novel…it allows you to…
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Are You Using Vague Nouns in Your Writing?

https://loupiccolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Vague-Nouns.mp4 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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Are You Using Excessive Adverbs in Your Writing?

https://loupiccolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Lou-Piccolo-Using-adverbs-in-your-writing.mp4 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…
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