Writing A Novel

Excessive Adverbs

Try to avoid using adverbs in your writing, especially after the dialogue. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or other types of words, phrases and clauses, and generally have few adjectives ending in the suffix-ing. It will distract the reader from his story. There are too many cases, “he said incredulously,” or, “he quipped.” A good story or the dialogue will make the tone your are trying to create without the need for an additional descriptor.

Description excessive

The description is very different from the specific details that are necessary in a good novel. Description, however, may delay its history. Use this rule of thumb for deciding whether to provide a description of his writing – is bound to intrigue and to advance the story? If the answer is not cut. Writing is all about moving the plot, and if you pause to provide a two page description of a building, no matter how nice, that stops the action. The pace is everything. Join the action.

Avoid generalizations

Unlike the excessive description, specific details are very important for history. Take a moment to the name of a street or a restaurant, or briefly describe a dress, made all the difference to your readers. I recently read a book that I shall not name, who gave no further details. It made me so mad! He talked about a dress she had chosen for that night, but he has not said a word about it! You could say I was a little black dress or a slinky red evening gown, or a summer dress with flowers. That did not provide important details, actually took in its history. It is less credible. Most readers have a little imagination, but it needs some work. Expect to find all the details is unprofessional and, frankly, a bit lazy.