Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

Hello folks, Mark Anthony Tierno here again, author of Maldene. and proud member of the World Famous TSRA Authors Hall of Fame
This time, though, I’ve decided to share a few of my writing tips, and since everyone has their own Top 10 list, I’ve come up with mine… only it seems to have come out to eleven, but with a very good reason. At any rate, be it novel or short story, I’ve found over the years that these tips I’ve developed can help a lot. So on with the list.
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1) Turn off the Grammar Checker. Leave on the spell checker, by all means, but for dialogue especially, the grammar checker is useless. No real-life character talks like they just came out of Yale. And if you’re doing accents then your spell checker WILL be bugging you. Ignore it.
2) Use a database for keeping track…
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