Author: Dana Isaacson

What’s missing?

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Aug 16, 2019 | Writing Prompts

Your character realizes that an object of great personal value has been lost or stolen. What is...

How to Write Amazing Flashbacks

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Aug 12, 2019 | Craft

While novelists love flashbacks, using them can be perilous. Editor Dana Isaacson explains why and when they should be used—and when they should be avoided.

Writing prompt: Age difference

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Jul 19, 2019 | Writing Prompts

Your character reluctantly overhears one side of a cellphone call of a person twenty years younger...

Perfect your Prose: 9 Essential Rules on Question and Quotation Marks

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Jul 15, 2019 | Craft

Don’t turn off agents and editors with punctuation mistakes. Tidy your prose by avoiding these common gaffes on question marks and quotation marks.

Writing Prompt: Look closer

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Jun 21, 2019 | Craft, Writing Prompts

Hope? Sadness? Determination? Describe the face in the mirror. What emotions can be seen …...

Punctuate to Impress with the Versatile Em dash!

Posted by Dana Isaacson | Jun 17, 2019 | Craft

Em dash? En dash? Hyphen? Keep your punctuation marks on point with these tips from editor Dana Isaacson.

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