50 Ways to Hone Your Writing Skills

As a long-time book editor, I get the same questions over and over from my clients: How can I make my writing more exciting? How can I show rather than tell? How can I tighten my prose?

I’ve compiled answers to these and related questions in my book 7 Minutes a Day to Mastering the Craft of Writing. It gives quick, easy-to-understand examples of how to improve your writing’s diction and voice, how to strengthen your writing’s narrative drive, and how to inject color into your prose.

“Writing is easy. All you do is cross out all the wrong words.” – Mark Twain

Passive voice, begin fallacies, verb tense shifts, vanilla prose, nulls, dull dialogue, fuzzy words – I’ve seen them and many other problems in hundreds of manuscripts. With Mastering the Craft of Writing, I’ll provide 50 tried-and-true ways to identify and fix those issues. Apply them to your manuscript, and you’ll know all the secrets of the bestselling authors!

Mastering the Craft of Writing has repeatedly topped Amazon.com's bestseller lists for writing guidebooks. It is available in both paperback and ebook.