Tag: avoid

Top 10 Tips on Writing a Properly Flawed Main Character

Creating a compelling main character is essential to any work of fiction, but creating a character that is perfectly good in every way can be a recipe for a dull story. That’s why it’s important to make your main character flawed. By making your main character flawed, you can create tension, conflict, and depth that […]

Purple Prose – What It Is And How to Avoid It

Although purple prose sounds pretty and like a way you would want your writing described, it’s actually not a good thing to have your writing described this way. If someone calls your purple writing prose, essentially, they’re calling it flowery. They think it’s too wordy, formal or trying too hard to be poetic. Although there […]

“Read What’s There”: How I Learned to Avoid Shortcuts

I vividly remember analog media and the switch to digital. Sometimes I’m still amazed that I can check a word’s definition by tapping on it. As a public elementary school student in the 1990s, to define an unfamiliar word, I would have needed to walk to a heavy dictionary on the other side of the […]