14 Simple Writing Tips for Fiction Writers
1. Know how to differentiate between 'I am/I'm/am' & 'too/to/two' 2. Stop switching possessives with contractions. Know best how to differentiate between denotations and connotations 3. 'There/Their/They’re’ & 'Where/Were/Where're' are words you shouldn't mix their usage 4. Active always win passive. And weak words deserves elimination if you want to show and not tell 5. Hyphen, semicolons, en dash, em dash, colon, comma, and period are important punctuation marks 6. Every dialogue deserves a new paragraph and their punctuations can come with it own rules like the punctuation mark stays inside the quotations 7. A scene is a scene not the whole story. Don't waste all your pages writing just a scene of a story simply because you want to be perfect. Always remember you're writing a draft not a final piece you want to publish right away. 8. Clichés are fast becoming universally boring. You're a writer not a clown. Readers are ti
