Skip to content
Reet Singh

Reet Singh

Romancing my woes away!

Menu
  • About Me
  • My Romance Novels
  • Enticing Excerpts
  • My Short Stories
  • Poetry
  • Blog Posts
  • My posts on other sites
  • Promoting other authors
  • Authors’ Tips – A to Z of Writing
  • My Doc Avatar: Upreet Dhaliwal
Menu

Tag: A to Z

Adding a dash of humor to your writing

Posted on September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 by Reet Singh

This is an old one where I talk about adding humor to your writing.

I can’t write a blog on humor with mentioning my favorite author.

“If you take life fairly easily, then you take a humorous view of things. …making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, and ignoring real life altogether.”
PG Wodehouse

PG Wodehouse’s comic genius is something to aspire to; however, not all of us write comedies. What, then, is the point of adding a comic touch to our writing? Indeed, in that case, what is the purpose of this blog?

Word counts that work

Posted on August 30, 2019August 30, 2019 by Reet Singh

This week I’m going to talk about word counts and what they could mean to you as a reader and as a writer.

What word count can mean to a reader:
How long is this story? Do I really want to read such a short/long story? Some like it long – they feel cheated by shorts and novellas; others want to get through a book in one night, or on the train ride home, so they shudder at epic word counts.

For authors, though, word counts can mean two things:

Writers’ Ten Commandments

Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 by Reet Singh

This week, suspense author Ravi Bedi visits my blog to talk about things that should be included in the list of a writer’s TEN Commandments:

Semicolons, Em-dashes, and Ellipses

Posted on May 22, 2019August 30, 2019 by Reet Singh

This week I’m going to talk about some interesting punctuation marks that you should certainly try in your writing.

First, I’m going to define what a clause is, because we’ll be talking about it a lot in the following section.

A clause is a group of words – it forms part of a sentence AND contains a subject and a verb.

For example: Tanay stepped into the en-suite bathroom and began to look for a shaving kit.

Point of View in story-telling

Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Reet Singh

When it refers to real life, a Point of View is the “position from which something is viewed”. In story-telling, it translates into “who is telling the story?”Whose viewpoint is it? How much of it is biased because it is only one point of view? How much can a reader believe if it is coming from one ‘position’ only?Let me try and answer these questions.

Midpoints that impel the story onwards

Posted on March 10, 2019March 10, 2019 by Reet Singh

This week I’m going to talk about how to write a midpoint that keeps the reader turning the pages.As the word suggests, the midpoint of a story comes right at the center of it.How should it be written?Why should we care?Regardless of what genre we write, the first quarter of the story is invariably where the characters are introduced to the reader and where the events that complicate the main characters’ lives take place.This part is the set-up to the second quarter of the story which highlights how the characters react to the life-altering events (job offer, job loss, tragedy, natural disaster, unexpected inheritance) that beset them.Their reactions drive the story forward – if they don’t react, there will be no story.

Writing Love Scenes

Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 by Reet Singh

When there’s a romance brewing between two characters in a story, even in genres other than romantic fiction, readers will want the characters to, at the very least, kiss.

When I’m reading, I know that I always want that to happen – and I feel let down when a story with a promising slow-sizzle ends without a physically sensual moment. I’m sure the protagonists feel cheated too.

Killing your readers – or, How NOT to write!

Posted on February 14, 2019February 13, 2019 by Reet Singh

Have you heard of the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest?
It has been around since 1982 and it connotes a very intriguing challenge – participants must write an “atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel” and the most atrocious entry wins a prize every year.

Jealous of other authors? Is that a bad thing?

Posted on February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 by Reet Singh

We are at the letter J in our series on “Authors’ Tips – A to Z of Writing” If you’ve read the previous posts on the subject, you’ll recall that the eight of us – Devika Fernando, Preethi Venugopala, Paromita Goswami, Adite Banerjie, Ruchi Singh, Sudesna Ghosh, Saiswaroopa Iyer and I – are blogging on… Continue reading

Google Play Books for self-publishing authors

Posted on December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 by Reet Singh

This week I’m going to talk about publishing on Google Play Books.

I’ve used Amazon KDP and Smashwords, and have always wondered about Google play Books so I thought I’d read up a bit about it.

In the words of a writer for the Independent Publishing Magazine:
“What more could a self-published author want? The world’s largest search engine combined with the world’s largest e-bookstore.”

Um…my research threw up
some interesting findings and the chief one is that it isn’t as easy
as all that.

Here’s where I hang out:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Amazon
  • Goodreads
  • LinkedIn
  • Google

My Most Recent Posts

  • Spotlight: Meet Jamie Garvin, lead of @JanaRichards_’s Small Town Romance “Unexpected”
  • @AuthorReet’s Blueprint for a Beguiling #Blurb: or, how to grab #readers’ eyeballs
  • Spotlight: “A Room in Blake’s Folly” by @JArleneCuliner
  • ‘A Christmas Conspiracy’: #Shortstory #POC #HolidayRomance #MFRWhooks

Influencers


IndiBlogger - The Largest Indian Blogger Community

Privacy Policy

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Make sure you read the privacy policy to see how your data will be handled.

Archives

  • June 2022 (1)
  • May 2022 (2)
  • April 2022 (2)
  • March 2022 (3)
  • January 2022 (1)
  • November 2021 (1)
  • October 2021 (1)
  • September 2021 (2)
  • August 2021 (2)
  • June 2021 (1)
  • May 2021 (2)
  • April 2021 (2)
  • March 2021 (4)
  • February 2021 (4)
  • January 2021 (5)
  • December 2020 (2)
  • November 2020 (3)
  • October 2020 (3)
  • September 2020 (4)
  • August 2020 (3)
  • July 2020 (3)
  • June 2020 (1)
  • May 2020 (2)
  • April 2020 (2)
  • March 2020 (6)
  • February 2020 (5)
  • January 2020 (4)
  • December 2019 (4)
  • November 2019 (2)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • September 2019 (6)
  • August 2019 (2)
  • July 2019 (3)
  • June 2019 (3)
  • May 2019 (3)
  • April 2019 (1)
  • March 2019 (3)
  • February 2019 (4)
  • January 2019 (3)
  • December 2018 (1)
  • October 2018 (3)
  • September 2018 (3)
  • August 2018 (5)
  • July 2018 (2)
  • June 2018 (7)
  • May 2018 (6)
  • April 2018 (11)
  • March 2018 (3)
  • November 2015 (1)

What I write about

99 cents 2019 2020 Ability Acceptance Ally Alone Amazon Prime Army brat A to Z Author promos Authors Authors Dish Author tip Awards Being Blogging Blog tour Blueprint Book blurb Book Cover Book event Book Giveaway Book promo Book release Book review Books Book Sale Books with pets Bulwer Lytton Burnout BusyPencils Cat lover Cats Chaos Character interview Cheating Christmas Cliches Coffee Time Romance Contemporary Coronavirus Cover Cover reveal Covid-19 Daily word count Dark Darkness Death Destruction Dialogue Dialogue tags Disability Diversity Doctor Dreams DV Stone Dying Ecstacy Ellipsis em-dash Esha Pandey Everlasting love Excerpt Exercise Existence Family relationships Farmers February Fiction Fiction writing Fire First meeting Flashback FREE Free book Free reads Future Giveaway Goodreads Good thoughts Google Play Books Gratitude Greed Handbag Happiness Happy New Year Harlequin Health heartbreak Heartbroken Hope Humanity Humor Humour Illness India Indie author Insensitivity Interviews Iris Blobel Isolated Jealousy Joy Kindle Unlimited Kiss KOBO Liebster Award Life Literary envy Loneliness Loss Lost love Love Love and loss LoveRomanceReads Love scenes Madison Michael Marcia James Marriage Medical Medieval Fantasy Romance Mental health MFRWAuthors MFRWHooks MFRWOrg Midpoint Mind games Monsoon Moonlight Nature New release No Escape from Love Nothing about us without us Older romance Optimism Parents Passion Patients Peace Pets Physician Physicians Physician writers Poem Poetry Point of View Positivity Promotions Rafflecopter Read a Romance Month Reader Review Relationships Rescue dogs Revenge Review Romance Romance author Romantic suspense Satin and Sapphire Scientific method Scientific writing Scrivener Second-hand wardrobe Second chance Secrets Self-isolated Self-love Selfishness Self Publishing Semi-colon Service Dogs Setting Short story Snippet Snow Soul Soulmate Sparks Steamy Struggle Sunlight Support Sustainability Take One Fake Fiance Temptation Ten commandments The Book Club Tips and tricks Toronto Truth Turbaned hero Ukraine Upbeat Valentine Vicki Batman Walk War Wardrobe Wedding anniversary Winter Wonder Word count Worst case scenario Writer's tip Writer's block Writer burnout Writing Writing Process Writing Sentences Writing Software WritingTips Yearning Young adult

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
© 2022 Reet Singh | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme

 

Loading Comments...