Cage Match: AutoCrit vs. ProWritingAid Chapter Analysis
(Beth Turnage Blog) Analysis of Two Industry Giants (And a Nod to Hand Analysis) What happens when you pit two of the biggest names in AI manuscript analysis against each other? I put Chapter 4 of my manuscript through both AutoCrit and ProWritingAid to see how they’d evaluate the...
Shocking Results From AI Manuscript Analysis : AutoCrit Vs ProWriting Aid
(Beth Turnage Blog) The Rejections That Started an AI Experiment After receiving some puzzling rejections for my manuscript Hanging By A Thread—a neo-noir thriller with MM romantic suspense elements—I found myself genuinely confused. As someone who’s been ghostwriting for 11 years and has helped clients achieve numerous bestsellers, I...
Update: The Scribe’s Progress (Or Lack Thereof)
The scribe is burning through the “trash that pays the mortgage.” This is good because, this, theoretically will leave her more time to work on my story. But I’m dismayed that she’s not writing about me. (Whatever happened to finishing what you start, Scribe?) Scribe: Look, if you weren’t...
An Author Interview With Kelleen Rynin
(Beth Turnage) I recently took a writer’s workshop, Young Adult Novel Writing with Emily Colin at Authors Publish. One of the exercises was to write an interview with your character. Since I’m working on Master’s License, I chose 14-year-old Kelleen Rynin, the protagonist of the story, which was very...
The Craft of #Writing: #Pantsing versus #Outlining
The following is from my post on Quora responding to this question: Do writers and authors write out an outline of their novel first? How detailed is the outline? Whether to outline or “pants” (meaning to write by the seat of their pants) is individual to each writer. Some...
Weird Christmas 2022
My Fantasy-Writers.org buddies and I enter a writing contest each year called Weird Christmas, run by Craig, who enjoys the strange permutations of the Christmas season. Unfortunately, most of those that entered didn’t make it to the final cut, as what happens in publishing. It’s a very competitive business....
Ask A #Writer: Is It Worth It To Be One?
Ask a Writer Asked and answered on Quora. The Original Question: Is it worth to be an author? It’s the best thing ever, but not for the reasons you think. 1) Your time is your own. You can wake up when you want to, sleep when it suits you,...
#NaNoWriMo: Day 2—How to De-Angst Novel #Writing
Even if you despise outlining, give it a shot. A few hours of outlining with save days of beating your head on your laptop. Trust the woman that writes novels for a living on a deadline. An outline will give you a clearer idea of where your characters are...
The Craft of #Writing: The Workbook Productivity Hack
One of my writing friends on FWO asked me to write about I how I organize my work so that I’m productive in my ghostwriting business. Everyone has their own writing process. What works for me may not work for you. But I’m glad to share my tools to...
The craft of #writing: ratcheting chapter tension
Like a pinball, your story bounces around in your head, hitting your occipital lobe, hippocampus, and the front of your brain, lighting them all up with the act of creation. If you are a master writer, you light up the caudate nucleus, which handles skills gained over time. Creating...