E D Skinner

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Writing

Fifth Estate User’s Manual
Posts
10/22/19

The Fifth Estate includes social media, blogs, the internet in general, and all of us.

Estates One, Two, and Three …

Central Phoenix Writers Workshop
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4/7/19

Several times a week, the Central Phoenix Writers Workshop meets to critique and commiserate.

For some, it’s a …

Rules o’ Ritin’
Posts
1/28/19

There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice…

Here’s one …

NaNoWriMo Approacheth
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10/12/17

Since 1999, this annual event has helped motivate authors, including lots of wannabes like myself, complete …

Adverb’s Disease
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9/22/16
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My writing is afflicted with a horrible disease.

Adverb’s Disease shows as weak little words attached to verbs. …

The A, B, C, D and F of Editing Fiction
Posts
8/15/16

Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft. …

Whose Head Is It Anyway?
Posts
1/16/16

Third Person Point-of-View

A lot of books are told by a narrator.

"Bob, a bald-headed 45 …
Advice for Writers
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1/5/16

When I started Serpent’s Smile with the “one chapter per week” goal, my writing process included a …

Critique Group
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12/8/15

In the Facebook search bar, try “YourCity writers workshop”, substituting nearby city/area names. You’ll want to …

Profit From Your “Read It Free” Web Postings
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8/25/15

The Martian by Andy Weir, his first novel and soon to be a movie (click for trailer), was originally published on the …