http://greenleafworkshops.com Serious Workshops for Serious Writers Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://greenleafworkshops.com/fundamentals-of-novel-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-3 How to Put Some Sparkle in Your Prose « Greenleaf Literary Services Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:13:53 +0000 http://www.greenleafworkshops.com/?page_id=7#comment-3 [...] You don’t have to be a gifted wordsmith to write successful novels. Even if your prose is less than exciting, you can make up for it by coming up with dynamite story lines and characters. Most truly gifted wordsmiths were born with something that the rest of us just don’t have. But there are some specific things you can do to spruce up your prose. To illustrate, I’m going to borrow a page from the guidebook I use for my online Fundamentals of Novel Writing workshop. [...] [...] You don’t have to be a gifted wordsmith to write successful novels. Even if your prose is less than exciting, you can make up for it by coming up with dynamite story lines and characters. Most truly gifted wordsmiths were born with something that the rest of us just don’t have. But there are some specific things you can do to spruce up your prose. To illustrate, I’m going to borrow a page from the guidebook I use for my online Fundamentals of Novel Writing workshop. [...]

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