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I'll review your work quickly and affordably! For example, a review of your 350-page manuscript (ms) will be finished within a week's time. For a 350-page ms, double-spaced with 12-pt font on A4 (or 8.5" x 11") paper, I can promise the cost will not exceed my flat fee of only $725. (larger ms require more time and can be negotiated).
My critiques include two read-throughs of your ms. I read very quickly and can get through one reading of your ms in a day. The critique also includes your ms marked up and returned to you either via post or e-mail, plus a complete written review that will look at how well you've developed the following:
Character, voice & point of view, setting, plot, redundancies, conflict (internal & external), and any other areas that stand out and need polishing.
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Either way, I look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Susan.
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WRITING TIPS
As a writer and writing instructor, I've come up with a few methods to help improve your writing...
WRITING TIPS:
Tension on Every Page is the new catchphrase found in the writing community. And, it's great that we know we need it, all we need now is a "how" to create it!
Create tension with the following techniques:
Foreshadowing
Escalating action
Emotional appeal
How do I do this? I hear them cry! Well, I'm here to explain.
With foreshadowing you must hint at events that will come, put characters in predicaments that give a glimmer of what might (or might not) happen. Foreshadowing with contrasting scenes is a great way to surprise the reader, to set them up. Readers love to try and figure out what is coming and when quite the opposite happens they feel a sense of satisfaction. Don't let the reader be able to anticipate your next step - keep the reader off-balance and you will have readers coming back for more.
Escalating action builds a sense of anticipation in the reader. You can obtain this sense of anticipation by increasing the stakes of the character(s) involved. If they are going to work late again, is this the day their manager will finally explode and fire them; if they are walking into a meeting and the room gets quiet upon their entrance is it because the character senses everyone is in on something the character is not? Will the character find out? If the answer is "yes" the character should find out at the same time the reader does and at the latest point in the scene. This can do three things: it can build tension, it can raise stakes, and it can leave the scene hanging. A hanging scene will lead smoothly into the next scene which should prove a conflict of even higher stakes for the character.
Infusing a scene with high-emotional appeal will not only make your character deeper but will lock your reader into the character's state of mind; the reader's stakes in the story will become more real to the reader; and, the outcome of the character will be of importance to the reader - the reader will empathize with the epiphany the character will reach as if it is his own.
Try to include just these three aspects to your scenes and you will have a more profound piece of work.
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- mase2007 mase2007 Jul 2, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
- Awesome Lens! Thats a lot of great information! LOVE IT!! Check out mine too if you want at Candy Bouquets
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- Amie B. Ajamie Amie B. Ajamie Jun 30, 2007 @ 2:28 am
- Great stuff, great fun reading exciting material from your creative side.
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- Amie B. Ajamie Amie B. Ajamie Jun 30, 2007 @ 2:26 am
- I loved your book, OF THE LAW, I hope you continue to write more, I just got a hint about what you are doing from this section. Keep up the good work, I'm waiting for your next one.
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I'm happy to say in May 2007, my first novel, OF THE LAW, was released. I write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays. For hobbies, I paint and play...
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