Writing Tips

All credit to author Colleen Behnke for the term “writing slim.” She mentioned it to me as we discussed working together to publish her middle grade novel Marshmallow. I had asked her about her approach to writing, and she said she tends to “write slim.” I immediately connected to the term. It reminded me of…

I’m going to write a little scene here, and I want you to tell me what you think about it. I stopped over to visit Jenny at her home a mile outside of downtown Milwaukee. She and her husband had bought the ten acres of land about four years ago and had built an intimidating…

Facts and information! All books need them in order for the reader to understand the story. But deciding how to deliver them is often the difference between a book that’s a slog and a book where the pages turn themselves. Whether fiction or non-fiction, and with works for any age of reader, the writer’s ability…