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As well as my first four novels, I have now written “Marlie,” a third novel of romantic suspense that takes place in the Queen Charlotte Islands. It follows “The Wind Weeps” (a free download), and “Reckoning Tide,” but is a stand-alone novel.
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Following your valuable advice has enriched my writing. Thank you.
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And rich it is! I love your books. I try to follow my own advice too. There’s always something to learn and to work on in our writing.
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A lot of times it is a matter (IMHO) of writing with the oral voice in our heads–you know, the one we use to tell verbal stories. Most of us aren’t all that great at refining the language we use to tell stories aloud, and then we carry that into our first drafts. If we don’t weed it out, we’ve got shitty writing. I do that ALL the time.
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There’s a place for writing the way we talk (mostly in dialogue), but in the narrative parts, you are so right – we need to clean up the thoughts and ideas we are trying to convey so they don’t become repetitive prattle. Thanks for checking in and leaving your valued opinion, Luanne. It’s good to have input from other writers.
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Repetitive prattle. Yup, that’s it!
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Excellent writing tips. I plan to focus on filtering or rather, ‘showing.’ Thanks, Anneli.
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I still catch myself doing the odd filtering, but it’s getting better. It takes an effort to become aware of these things in our own writing.
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