Katherine M. Kennedy

Writer

Getting Rid Of Filter Words in Your Writing

Filter words are words that filter the perceptions of the character, they are often redundant and can litter up the your writing, making it

Do You Have To Read To Write? A Hopefully Unnecessary Argument For Reading

If you aren't reading, you can't write, or you can write, but likely not well.

8 Questions You Need To Answer Before You Start Writing Your Book

There are some elements of writing advice, like the hatred of adverbs, that, while good to know, are not essential. Others are more importan

Why You Should Edit As You Write Your Book.

Don't edit as you write is excellent advice. Advice that I found almost impossible to follow. And when I did follow it while writing my seco

Why You Shouldn't Edit As You Write

I edited my first book while I wrote it. It got messy. Fast.

Word Count: How Long Should Your Book Be?

JUMP AHEAD: Why Does Word Count Matter? Why Word Count Instead Of Number Of Pages? Elements That Can Effect Page Count But Not Word Count...

British Or American English? Which is Right for Your Writing?

British V American English. The battle has begun.

Writer's Block, Fact, or Fiction? How To Deal with Flagging Motivation.

Writer's block is just a term for a bad day, week, or year at the office.

13 Practical Things You Need To Know Before You Start Writing a Book

This time I’m focusing on more practical elements like grammar, writing programs, research, and editing.

11 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Writing A Book

Skip Ahead: 1. The Rules Of Writing Are Actually Guidelines, And Nobody Knows What They Are Talking About, Not Even Writers 2. Writing...

A Hemingway Editor Review—Does It Suck?

SKIP AHEAD: What Is Hemingway Editor/ App? Do I Use Hemingway Editor For My Writing? Hemingway Editor and The Short Sentence Trend...

Crutch Words, The Um, So Actually. Crutch Words Aren't Evil, So What Are They?

The tippiest of top writing tips I ever got was from the YouTuber Alexa Donne. She advised that writers keep a list of crutch words, and...

Let's Talk Grammarly—The Good Part 2

In part 1 of my Grammarly review, I went over all that is bad and nefarious about the writing assistant. In part 2, I'm going over the...

Let's talk Grammarly – The Bad Part 1

Free Grammarly is worth it. Of course, it is. It's free. Grammarly premium? Well, this might be controversial, but I reckon it's not.

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