Krista Lynn Shared Much Valuable Information

If you missed the last meeting, you truly missed out.

Krista Lynn shared many valuable tips about editing and much, much more.

She talked about self-publishing and how many people are going that route because many publishers are not editing or promoting. If you must do both, you might as well publish yourself.

Ways to punch up your writing:

List your characters, make sure the names aren't too similar.

Think about the setting, what is it like? You need to know where your characters are.

And your character, what kind of things do they do, do they talk a certain way, are they successful?

Go back through the manuscript and add things about the characters.

Characters must be up against conflict--have problems reaching their goals.

What does the character look like? What does he/she really want?

Pull out little characteristics--be consistent with mannerisms.

Self-edit.

Use power words.

Get rid of work like, it, that, just--and any word you use too often.

Read your manuscript out loud.

Instead of said, us something the character does instead for a dialogue tag.

Not too much back story.

She share much, much more.

Head on over to her webpage:

www.kristallynn.com

www.kristallynndesigns.com

Krista Lynn and our fearless leader, Gloria Getman.