Michael Ehret, WritingOnTheFineLine
-
I think I’m beginning to understand why The Hunger Games movie so bothers me: No redemption—or is there? I have not read the books. I saw the movie with my wife, a children’s librarian, because I thought it would be an interesting experiment—a movie buff who hasn’t read the book watching the movie with a…
-
“Accountability breeds response-ability.” —Stephen R. Covey I fear accountability. There, I’ve said it. I need it; but I avoid it. It hasn’t always been so. Early in my time at Bethel College (Indiana), I was invited to join a group called the Writers’ Accountability Network (WAN). You can still see me and the group here.…
-
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. – John Steinbeck, an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. Sometimes I do get frozen by…
-
Twenty-one highly intelligent people responded to my poll on Tuesday. Thank you! Self-editing tips: More than half of you (52 percent; 11 votes) like the self-editing tips I’ve been sharing on Thursdays. In The Edit: A good percentage (38 percent; 8 votes) enjoy it when I pull back the veil between editor and writer and…
-
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott Card, an American author primarily known for science fiction Observation is a key writer’s trait. Sometimes I sit on my front porch and watch the…
-
I started this blog to, as the sidebar says, “help writers cross the fine line between where they are and where they want to be.” One way to do that, I reasoned, was to draw back the veil a bit between the editor and the writer. As an editor, it thrills me to help writers…
-
In these posts, with the author’s permission, I look at their work pre-editing and post-editing—and at what I did to improve the piece. The idea is to catch a glimpse into not only the editing process, but the relationship between editor and author. Jennifer Slattery is one of my favorite writers for the ACFW Journal.…
-
“But I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize…
-
I invite you to visit one of my favorite blogs, Novel Rocket, where I post today about ways to cut words from your manuscripts. Michael Ehret, for Writing on the Fine Line
-
Sherri Stone, by her own description, is “a social worker by profession. (She is) a writer, unpublished for now and waiting on God’s timing and plan for this.“In the meantime He has provided a critique group to help me polish and hone my skills.” Further, she has “been writing for several years now, but really…
Writing On The Fine Line 