Archive - The Writer's Attic

Prose Critique #23

When (and when not) to use a comma splice

Jul 5

June 2025

How To Deliver On A Premise

Writers' Book Club: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Week 3)

Jun 28 •

Parker Peevyhouse

What Makes A Novel Intrigue-Rich?

Writers' Book Club: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Week 2)

Jun 21 •

Parker Peevyhouse

Writers' Book Club: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Week 1)

The genre-blending mystery with a perfect premise

Jun 14 •

Parker Peevyhouse

Writers' Book Club: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Week 0)

Open for your reading guide. Discussion begins next week!

Jun 7 •

Parker Peevyhouse

May 2025

Prose Critique #22

Unique word choice enhances voice

May 31

About That AI-Generated Book List In The Chicago Sun-Times

My devastating experience of finding my novel featured in a magazine

May 21 •

Parker Peevyhouse

The Helpful Writing Method You've Probably Never Heard Of

The 6-Dilemma Plot

May 17 •

Parker Peevyhouse

Prose Critique #21

Clarify setting when filtering it through the narrator's POV

May 10

The Book Breakdown: The Husbands

What writers can learn from this contemporary novel with a speculative twist

May 3 •

Parker Peevyhouse

April 2025

Prose Critique #20

Use a character's past as a lens for the present

Apr 30

Prose Critique #19

Use dialog beats for characterization

Apr 26

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