Writing Wednesday: The 7 Deadly Sins of Creative Writing
If you have been writing professionally for a while now, or at least attempting to, you’ve probably learned some writing lessons the hard way. Once you’ve seen your work marked up or rejected enough, the key dos and don’ts of writing become abundantly clear. But for those writers hoping to get started in the literary world, these errors may not seem so obvious. Of course, for every writer there is always learning to be done and a little dose of cautious realism can be helpful for all of us. So before you compile your next manuscript and send it off with hopes of publication, take a moment to ask yourself if you have committed any of these seven cardinal sins. 1)...