Fred Johnson

Fred is an editor, blurb writer, and all-round books guy. He helps authors take their manuscripts and cover copy from good to perfect and, in his spare time, can be found lurking in libraries.
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Fred Johnson

6 Brilliant Pieces Of Online Media For Writers

It’s all too easy for writers to burn out. Whether it’s writer’s block or just one of those days, sometimes you wish that your novel would just write itself, or that that plot research would just be done already. If only there was an easier way. Instead of reading through the minutiae of Strunk and White’s

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Embrace Noir Conventions To Improve Your Writing - A grizzled PI drinks with a femme fatale.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Embrace Noir Conventions To Improve Your Writing

Few genres have such a distinctive look and feel as noir fiction. A successor of ‘hard-boiled’ or ‘pulp’ fiction, you’ll know the conventions of noir even if you’ve never read The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep – seedy urban underbellies, trench-coat-clad PIs, cigarettes, femme fatales, whiskey, flickering streetlights casting white pools on Chicago streets, nihilistic

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Pathos Is Not A Dirty Word, And It Belongs In A Writer's Vocabulary - A character looks at a girl's dropped ice cream, tears in their eyes.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Pathos Is Not A Dirty Word, And It Belongs In A Writer’s Vocabulary

Pathos is down on its luck these days; appeals to emotion are bound up in reasonable fears of ‘post-truth’ and ‘populist’ writing, but I’m here to tell you that intelligent use of pathos can make your fiction better. Now, pathos certainly has its dark side. Many of the TV, radio, and internet adverts we’re bombarded

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12 Ways Neil Gaiman Can Help You Improve Your Writing Right Now - Neil Gaiman waves at the reader.
Writing
Fred Johnson

12 Ways Neil Gaiman Can Help You Improve Your Writing Right Now

Few writers of fantasy (or any other genre) can claim to be as wildly successful as Neil Gaiman. The mild-mannered English writer has long been a kind of literary rock star; his novel American Gods picked up several awards in 2001, his novel Stardust was made into an acclaimed movie in 2007, and his The Sandman comic series

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