by Sharla Rae Hey, who’s telling this story? I can make my characters do or say anything I want them to. Many beginning writers subscribe to this theory. I hate to break anyone’s bubble but that’s hogwash. When introducing characters, the author breathes life into them with a physical description, personality, goals and motivations. They look, […]

By Sharla Rae I preach Like With Like to my critique partners all the time and once in a while, they remind me to practice what I preach. So what do I mean by like with like? It’s not as easy to explain on paper as it is to point out the mistake in a […]

by Sharla Rae In Laura Drake’s recent blog My Editing Peeves, here at WITS, she points out dialogue tags. I have to agree that too many “saids” on a page or even in a chapter are annoying. Sure there are other tags like snarled, whispered, interjected, cried etc. But again, they stand out if overused. Included […]

Sharla Rae reviews Lori Handeland’s Nightcreature series, "Marked by the Moon." Wow!

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