I keep meaning to post more writing tips, but so many others are doing a fabulous job of this that I may instead just provide links to helpful writing sites. One site I found to be pretty good was Plot to Punctuation. In particular, I loved the five part series called Forty-five more flaws that expose your lack of storytelling experience. The list includes things like continuity errors, weak verbs, pronoun ambiguity, backstory info dumps, dialogue tagging, passive characters, and the clincher, telling instead of showing.
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Sheryl McFarlane 