Word lists | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:08:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg Word lists | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 Place Descriptions: It's About Atmosphere Not a Travel log https://writersinthestormblog.com/2012/02/place-descriptions-its-about-atmosphere-not-a-travel-log/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:30:56 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=4333 By Sharla Rae When I first started writing, the one thing my critique partners complained about most was my lack of descriptions. I hated doing them. Only the action and characters interested me. Who cares what color the sky is? Who cares if the river was muddy or sandy? Just tell the reader where the […]

The post Place Descriptions: It's About Atmosphere Not a Travel log first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> Writing Antifreeze: Word and Phrase Menus https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/05/writing-antifreeze-word-and-phrase-menus/ Fri, 27 May 2011 14:30:07 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1348 By Sharla Rae We’ve all experienced brain freeze and no, I don’t mean writers’ block. Writers’ block is when you don’t know what comes next in the story or you’ve written yourself into a corner and can’t find a way out. Think of brain freeze as a frozen lake. All the fish are still alive […]

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