When You Can’t Find Your Past Participle

Hello SErs. Happy Wednesday. Harmony here 🙂 While writing my current book, Exodus, I ran into a little difficulty ... well, it felt more like a brick wall, lol. What tripped me up well and truly is a little thing called a past participle (I don't know about you, but I hate grammatical terms. They …

How to Use a Paragraph

Hello SErs! Harmony here 🙂 While today's topic might, at first glance, seem basic and obvious, it has more to it than what shows on the surface. For certain, when I wrote my first book, I didn't think about paragraph structure or use at all. I just wrote. And then my learning curve began. In …

How to Set Project Targets in Scrivener

Hello SErs. Harmony here. While P H Solomon is our resident expert on all things Scrivener, today I'd like to share a tool that I came across earlier this year, and it has made such a difference to me. ... Also, it stops my work area looking like the the picture to the left! LOL. …

Careful Who You Kill

Hello SErs. Harmony here. My current WIP is the first time I've written first draft without doing any editing. None at all. At first, I found it tough. But by now, having reached near the end, I've seen how useful it can be ... even a life saver. Early on, a character called Jenny popped …

Friday Writing Question: Where do You Start?

Hello SErs. Harmony here. Happy Friday 🙂 Before I get to today's question, I want to tell you a joke (yeah, sorry about this) ... A guy brings a squirrel into a bar and sets the cage down. The bartender says, 'What's that?' 'A mystery writer.' 'What? That looks like a squirrel.' 'Yeah,' the guys …