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You clearly have very good instincts for story telling.

@ForestDweller Paragraphing IS supposed to be divided by character --actions+dialogue. However sooner or later one will run across: Run-On Dialogue. Run-On Dialogue is when one character talks, and talks, and talks...for whole paragraphs at a time. Oddly enough, this problem isn't all that...

Exactly!

Actually, that's not my latest book out. LOL! I need to update that site a bit. My latest book out is Vicxxx Stxxx, or rather that whole series. It was released by a second publisher two years ago.

I like you so much...!

You know, Passive Voice was not covered in my essay. It was in a different post altogether. Anyway... I don't actually believe that Passive Voice should be wiped off the face of fiction! It's just Bad Form and many editors don't like it, and won't accept it. Mine certainly won't. Good...

Uh... I did, in the essay. -- However, for you I will copy-paste some translated lines to show you exactly what I mean about lines of dialogue cut away from the actions they belong with. Also, ellipses abuse. One big Example from: I DON’T WANT THIS REINCARNATION Language : Korean Author(s) : 차선...

Look at it this way, every time you learn something new about writing you are adding it to your Writer's Toolbox. As it is with any toolbox, some tools are required for some jobs, while that same tool may be useless on a different job. For example, some jobs need a hammer, and other jobs take a...

The publishing industry is damned near identical to the music industry. In fact musician and author contracts are frighteningly similar in content and percentages. LOL! I was first published in 1980, while I was still in high school. I had to write that story on a typewriter because word...

It's a huge no-no for Beginner writers because it's a very, very difficult habit to break if those writers want to eventually submit to a publisher. On a site like this one, or if they decide to self-publish with Patreon or Amazon, it's no big deal if they write in Passive Voice because the...

Just because something was published before does not mean that current publishers will accept it. Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile The Sunday Times -- January 01, 2006 Jonathan Calvert and Will Iredale THEY can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have...

Absolutely. The problem is that too many new writers are cutting the dialogue away from the actions that should go with them entirely. This is a grammar style picked up from reading CN, KR, and JP translations -- and it's wrong for English. It's NOT invisible. I'm a reader myself and I notice...

There's no way you could have known. This stuff is Not Talked About anywhere. It's not in any how-to writing book either. I'm dropping Industry level secrets here -- seriously. I only found out about all this the hard way -- after I signed a book contract and got my manuscript back from the...

I thought you might! LOL! Goodness! I didn't expect that at all! LOL! We are definitely going to disagree on this topic. Body language isn't just movement of the extremities; shifting and sipping coffee, it's also Facial Expressions. A lift of the brow, a narrowing of the eye, a slight lift...

There is a reason why this particular book is used as a College textbook. What a lot of people don't know is that Strunk & White's book was first written in the late 1800's. It has since been...abridged many, many times since then. However, quite a bit of the original language is still in there...

ROFLMAO! Fixed! Thanks for catching that! ✨

Eh...? Wall of text? But it has lots of pictures and easy examples too? Thank you! I hope it proves helpful in your work.

You'd be surprised. The screaming this essay gets can be quite intense. For example, people can get quite rabid about using the word "said" in their dialogue. Exactly!

This particular essay tends to get a lot of screaming and yelling. Everyone seems to think it's a personal attack on their work -- even if I have no clue who they are!

Want to Know the Biggest Secret in the Fiction Writing Industry? It's not the Plotting they use, the Characters, the Theme, the Settings, or anything else like that. It's the Sentence Structure. DISCLAIMER: This is how I was taught to structure dialogue for publication purposes -- by my...