Michelle L. Scott's Blog

• Stay Fresh

  September 10, 2009

  • Living in the moment is important; writing for the moment is not.  Good writers give their writing staying power.  That is, they work to make sure that what they write sounds as current to a reader today as it will to a reader in twenty years. There is a tendency among some writers (and I lay claim to this fault as well!) to insert such things as brand names or current iconic figures in their ...
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• Deep Purple

  August 28, 2009

  • There are so many lovely words in the English language, aren't there?  Quixotic, erudite, tenebrous...  All those lovely adverbs and adjectives just waiting to be used by the likes of us.   Like shopping in an exquisite candy store, sometimes it's difficult to reign ourselves in.  (Besides, unlike the candy store, words are free!) But we have to.  Most times, restraint and not ...
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• Take Time to Edit

  August 10, 2009

  • If you're like me, the moment you finish writing a story (or a novel, or a poem, or whatever), you want to dash off a thousand queries to a thousand markets in the hope that one will accept it.  There's something about typing the words 'The End' at the bottom of the last page that make me want to send that manuscript off pronto!But when I feel this way, I always remember those immortal words, ...
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