I’m thrilled to announce Writing a River has its very first guest post! Guest Post by Penelope Hart Today’s post is by the wonderful Penelope Hart. Penelope has had a long career as a writer, working on glossy magazines in the eighties, and later gaining an MA – with distinction – in Scriptwriting. Her plays have been performed in British … Read More
Tips on How to Use Adjectives Effectively in Fiction
Adjectives are like swear words. The more you use them the less impact they have. Is there a rule of thumb for how often we should use adjectives in a piece of writing? The unhelpful answer is: not really. But let’s think about swearing again. Here’s a piece of purple prose with the adjectives removed and replaced with: “swearword.” (You … Read More
Themes: Mothers and Daughters in Literature and in Life
Many years ago, I read My Mother, My Self by Nancy Friday. This book is an exploration of the mother-daughter relationship. Friday points out how much women mirror our mothers, even when we try to do the opposite. She interviewed many women for the book. In describing the way this mirroring isn’t always obvious she says: “Mother lived in a … Read More
Wonderful Wednesday: Say It With Flowers
This blog post is for a new Blog Hop: Wonderful Wednesday, which is a (wonderful) idea that Cyndi Calhoun who blogs at Pictimilitude came up with. The idea that photos will be the focus of the blog posts and each week will have a theme. Today’s theme is flowers. I love flowers. One thing I particularly love about them is … Read More
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