by Jill Williamson | Sep 28, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonHere is my conclusion on rhetoric. I wrote two other posts on the subject. In case you missed them, we first talked about anaphora and amplificationrhetoric. Then we talked about asyndeton, climax, and metaphors. Rhetoric can add a lot of fun to your...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 24, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamson This past summer, Roseanna White wrote a great post called, What does the perfect query letter look like? This is an excellent post with an excellent example. I like examples. And I think you do too. So I scavenged up some more examples of query...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 14, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonThe plot of a story is simply the series of events that takes your character from the beginning of the story to the end as he chases after his story goal. By far, the most popular plot structure is the three act structure that divides a story into...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 11, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonTo capitalize the name or not to capitalize? Here are the answers as per the Chicago Manual of Style.FamilyIf your character is addressing her mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent and first uses a pronoun (my, her,...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 7, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonA few weeks ago I wrote a post introducing rhetoric to you all. Learning to use different types of rhetoric is fun because it gives more inspiration. Spontaneous creativity is awesome, but intentional creativity is cool too. And once you learn some...
