July 2024 – Page 4 – Andy writes!

Rusty

Yesterday I found myself in need of a change of pace, so instead of spending a bit of free time writing or editing, I picked up my acoustic guitar and played. I tuned the thing to double drop D, just to give myself a little more variety than the usual standard tuning and maybe exercise some different parts of my brain.

The set-up

Don’t waste words on flowery descriptions. Pull your reader into your story.

As I work on editing several short stories, I find that with many of them, I spend too much time with the set-up rather than getting to the essence of the story.