a full-time contemporary paranormal/fantasy cozy mystery author with over 25 published novels, and an avid Sudowrite user (and advocate.)
Federico Escobar, an active Sudowrite user, deserves credit for discovering this technique. When Federico was experimenting with the Expand button, he discovered that if he added instructions in parentheses at the end of the text about...
Eye dialect is a literary device used to represent dialect by mimicking certain aspects of its pronunciation. It is not an accurate representation of the spoken language and often involves using nonstandard spelling to represent the...
The Rewrite button has a predefined option for adding description ("More Descriptive"), and the Describe button covers description using the five senses and metaphors—but what if you're looking to add a...
I find myself in a tense quandary fairly frequently. Not tense as in tension, but tense as in past, present,...
Character description is important for helping readers to visualize the characters in a story and to understand the motivations of your characters. It can also sometimes create suspense or foreshadow events. So, what is character description?...
Before we get into continuing scenes and chapters, I have a secret to tell you. 1500 is the magic number. I know. Schoolhouse Rock told you it was 3. Well, it told me that 3 was...
