How can you best write about your own hobbies, whether they be watchmaking or piano-playing, in your fiction and nonfiction? Well, let’s turn to a few authors who’ve already excelled at this and see what we can learn…
In many ways, writing a biography is arguably more difficult than writing a work of fiction. You’ve got to respect the truth, and the boundaries of reality and your own research limit what you can do with your characters and plot.
Many authors will find themselves in a position where they need to transcribe speech for their work. It’s a task that sounds easy but quickly becomes daunting if you don’t plan ahead.
The Flesch Reading Ease test and the Flesch–Kincaid (F–K) Grade Level test use the lengths of words and sentences in a piece of writing to determine its relative ease of reading.
