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Writing Pet Peeves and Why You Don't Want Writing Tips From Stephen King Dogs Are Smarter Than People via Anchor
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Carrie’s number one writing pet peeve is when authors write,
"I thought to myself."
Seriously. You are always thinking to yourself, sweet writer, unless you’re telepathically communicating to a zombie hamster and then all bets are off.
But the thing is that I, Carrie, get why authors like myself do this. It’s because:
We’re worried that the reader isn’t going to get what we’re saying.
We’re padding our daily word count totals for NaNoWriMo, national novel writing month where you try to write a 50,000-word novel in November.
But here’s the thing. Your readers are smart or smart enough to know that when your characters are thinking, they are doing that to themselves and not anyone else.
Cut those words, sweeties. Trust the readers. Trust your writing.
If you say, “I think” or “I thought,” everyone knows it’s to yourself… unless, you know, telepathic zombie hamsters.
So how about you? What are your writing pet peeves?
In the podcast we also talk about the "me and my" issue and how you really don't want to say, "I am nauseous."
WRITING TIP OF THE POD
Trust your readers. Don’t write down to them. Believe in your words.
DOG TIP FOR LIFE
You don’t need to be insecure. Be proud of what you’re doing, who you are and what you’re putting down for the world to hear.
SHOUT OUT!
The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.
HELP US AND DO AN AWESOME GOOD DEED
Thanks to all of you who keep listening to our weirdness on the DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE podcast as we talk about random thoughts, writing advice and life tips. We’re sorry we laugh so much… sort of. Please share it and subscribe if you can. Please rate and like us if you are feeling kind, because it matters somehow. There’s a new episode every Tuesday!
Thanks so much for being one of the 252,000 downloads if you’ve given us a listen!
CHILL WITH US
HEY! DO YOU WANT TO SPEND MORE TIME TOGETHER?
JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK AND FIND OUT HOW WE CAN!
NEW BOOK ALERT!
My little novella (It’s spare. It’s sad) is coming out October 1 and if you pre-order it now, you can get the Ebook for .99 before the price goes up to $2,99. It is a book of my heart and I am so worried about it, honestly.
There’s a bit more about it here.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carriejonesbooks/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carriejonesbooks/support
Carrie’s number one writing pet peeve is when authors write,
"I thought to myself."
Seriously. You are always thinking to yourself, sweet writer, unless you’re telepathically communicating to a zombie hamster and then all bets are off.
But the thing is that I, Carrie, get why authors like myself do this. It’s because:
We’re worried that the reader isn’t going to get what we’re saying.
We’re padding our daily word count totals for NaNoWriMo, national novel writing month where you try to write a 50,000-word novel in November.
But here’s the thing. Your readers are smart or smart enough to know that when your characters are thinking, they are doing that to themselves and not anyone else.
Cut those words, sweeties. Trust the readers. Trust your writing.
If you say, “I think” or “I thought,” everyone knows it’s to yourself… unless, you know, telepathic zombie hamsters.
So how about you? What are your writing pet peeves?
In the podcast we also talk about the "me and my" issue and how you really don't want to say, "I am nauseous."
WRITING TIP OF THE POD
Trust your readers. Don’t write down to them. Believe in your words.
DOG TIP FOR LIFE
You don’t need to be insecure. Be proud of what you’re doing, who you are and what you’re putting down for the world to hear.
SHOUT OUT!
The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.
HELP US AND DO AN AWESOME GOOD DEED
Thanks to all of you who keep listening to our weirdness on the DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE podcast as we talk about random thoughts, writing advice and life tips. We’re sorry we laugh so much… sort of. Please share it and subscribe if you can. Please rate and like us if you are feeling kind, because it matters somehow. There’s a new episode every Tuesday!
Thanks so much for being one of the 252,000 downloads if you’ve given us a listen!
CHILL WITH US
HEY! DO YOU WANT TO SPEND MORE TIME TOGETHER?
JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK AND FIND OUT HOW WE CAN!
NEW BOOK ALERT!
My little novella (It’s spare. It’s sad) is coming out October 1 and if you pre-order it now, you can get the Ebook for .99 before the price goes up to $2,99. It is a book of my heart and I am so worried about it, honestly.
There’s a bit more about it here.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carriejonesbooks/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carriejonesbooks/support
28 min