“Clean Text” in This Post Doesn’t Refer to Family-Friendly Content

If your writing trips people, even for a microsecond, it can result in confusion and lost readers. This guest post by Nmesoma Okechukwu describes the significance of clean writing.

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The Importance of Writing Clean Text

I’ve always compared writing to painting. It’s not about having an elegant story to tell or finding that beautiful picture to paint: you have to find the right colors, or with text, the right words to tell it. Words should flow like a river, drawing your reader deeper and deeper into the literary work you’ve created.

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Every Novel Contains Action

Whether a character is walking, talking, crying, writing, (or crying while writing), you can find several ways to describe that character’s actions. And objects in that character’s environment can move, land, shine, disappear, or …

In another guest post by John Bowers, we discover how to portray actions in a way that engages readers.
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