Falling Out Of Favor I have recently discovered that my writing skills have been hampered by using one cursed word way too much. It is the glue word “TO”. It has been my easy sentence manipulator and has made my writing talents look less than professional. I have discovered that some sentences written in my previous articles have the word “TO” gluing phrases together as many as 3 or 4 times. That’s almost as bad as using adverbs more than absolutely (adverb) necessary. Let me give you an […]

  Artwork By Stephen J. Key/SJKeyChronicles Frustrations And No Clear Answers When I wrote my third novel, I thought I could save a lot of time and frustration by taking the interior matter of my raw manuscript and just pasting it over the highlighted part of the formatted interior matter of my previously published novel. To a certain extent, this worked fine. The correct margins were maintained and I was able to fixate the chapter titles, sub titles, and quotes in their correct style sets on the […]

My First Edit When I did my first edit on FATE STALKS A HERO:RESURGENCE, I decided to read through the whole manuscript and make corrections as I went along, including rewriting parts that needed it. It’s funny how when you go back over an original rough draft, grammar issues, spelling errors, and repetitive usage of the same word all pop out at you. This is a multi-part series entitled “My Kindle Direct Publishing Experience”. The first blog in the series “My Kindle Direct Publishing Experience: Part I […]

Getting My Drafts Ready For Edit Since I am sharing tips and tricks here, I must confess that I did not have knowledge of time saving procedures when I wrote the Initial Drafts of both my First novel FATE STALKS A HERO: RESURGENCE and the sequel, FATE STALKS A HERO II:THE FIJI FULCRUM. Since I can’t afford the expense of professional editors and publishers, I have had to incorporate support tools that cost very little or nothing to use. This is a multi-part series entitled “My Kindle […]

Writing My Manuscript For FATE STALKS A HERO I I wrote a previous blog stating that I had to upgrade my MS WORD software from MS WORD 7 to MS WORD 10 or better because I could not use the Kindle Direct Publishing Add-In software to my WORD program unless I did so. So I upgraded to MS OFFICE 2019 by purchasing a download ‘KEY’ from a reliable vendor and got the whole package because I use MS EXCEL also. This is a multi-part series entitled “My […]