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Yes! Thank you for mentioning thesaurus disease, because it is a temptation that a lot of [newer] writers will fall into when they're told that they need to make things ...

(Since critiquing comes in many styles, and beginners might get confused as to their particular uses and strengths.) The best critiques deal with a little bit of both, and for ...

In a lot of my critiques, here and elsewhere, I find myself going over the basics of imagery, trying to explain it and type it quickly so that the critique-ee ...

Purple prose - heap it on, and if you're feeling uninspired I'm sure that you can get a helping hand from a cheap romance novel or two. Discribe pooling eyes, ...

In a lot of my critiques, here and elsewhere, I find myself going over the basics of imagery, trying to explain it and type it quickly so that the critique-ee ...

So I have like a million pretty journals lying about with one page written in them. They bug me because they look too fancy to write in- that's key. You ...

If your narrating character and the other characters aren't much removed by time and space, you can set things up like "The Great Gatsby" -- Nick is the narrator, and ...

^same. I keep a notebook for snippets and ideas or first drafts of short stories; book lists and contest themes have snuck in there as well. Writing about my day-to-day ...

I have a sort of mental 'copy and paste' set of things for beginning writers, especially beginning poets: when I read something that's clearly written by a new poet I ...

I always found that wikipedia was good for a general overview as well as some details; any books or essays or authors quoted/made reference to in the articles are always ...