I recently reviewed Peter’s new edition of The Thinker’s Thesaurus, and invited him to write a guest post here at Becoming A Fiction Writer to defend his suggestion that we writers should use more sophisticated words. Here ’tis – well worth reading. You might change your mind. Oh, and the pic’s of Peter (my idea not his), so you’ll know who you’re hearing from.

My vocabulary is perfect; yours is pompous or deficient

As a group, those who read the blog posts on this website are about as linguistically elite as they …

I recently got a message from a writer named Robert Scarlato, and although he’s really just starting out, it didn’t take me long to be impressed by both his productivity and his sensible self-marketing. He asked if he could do a guest post here at Becoming A Fiction Writer and I readily agreed:
I used to struggle all the time with writer’s block. After writing one book, from midnight to six am, while still a freshman in high school, I found that one of the best ways to get your writing …