by mandilynnwrites | Jan 12, 2025 | Writing Tips
We all want to become a better writer. We want readers to feel an impact from our stories, and better yet, feel like they are living within the pages of our books. But what if I told you that feeling started at the sentence level? That something as simple as an extra...
by mandilynnwrites | Sep 21, 2018 | Writing Tips
I’ve learned a lot of things while editing my third novel, She’s Not Here, and one of them is that I use a lot of filler or filter words. Filler or filter words are words we throw into our novels when we’re being lazy writers and not getting to the...
