The Writer’s Curse and Three Ways to Break It By Madeleine Mozley We’ve published a lot of original content on Instagram over the years. Sometimes, it’s fallen into the void of social media obscurity. But every once in a while, a post of ours seems to have cut to the heart of writers. One of […]
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Just Write: Seven Ways Authors Can Use AI to Save Time By Madeleine Mozley We’ve talked before here at Embers about how to find time to write. But for authors, there always seems to be a million things to do other than writing. All of these lovely tasks take up time too. What’s a busy
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The Power of Persistence Three Famous Authors Who Conquered Rejection By Madeleine Mozley “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will
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Removing the Mystery: The Step-by-Step Process of Working with Embers Igniting By Madeleine Mozley If you’re interested in Embers Igniting Editing, then you’re probably wondering how the editing process works. Professional editing can be intimidating to newer authors. Even for experienced authors, finding a new editor is an undertaking. So let’s remove some of the
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Rebel with a Clause: Seven Grammar Rules You Should Break By Madeleine Mozley I have a love/hate relationship with American English grammatical conventions. By and large, I love and enforce them, as do all of us editors here at Embers Igniting Editing. I appreciate how grammar forms a framework around which excellent writing can
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10 Ways to Identify Your Writing Style By Madeleine Mozley When I studied writing in college, there was never a lesson about voice. Setting? Check. Character? Yep. Plot? You bet. I heard endless platitudes about writing dialogue and appealing to the senses. Nearly every writing class spent at least one lecture on the anatomy of
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