If you don't mind a contribution form a newbie - as of about ten minutes ago. Join a critique group. You submit your novel one chapter at a time with the aim of receiving between three and five critiques on each one. There are usually published and unpublished authors offering useful advice and insight. You are expected to critice others work too of course, but you will learn a lot from that too. They are great exercises in active versus passive voice, PoV, showing versus telling etc. It will amaze you how focused you become when specific weak spots are pointed out, and if you feel your plotline is a bit thin, just ask the group for input and the scenarios will come flooding in. Hope that helps Anita Davison Duking Days Rebellion & Duking Days Revolution from Enspiren Press

If you don't mind a contribution form a newbie - as of about ten minutes ago.
Join a critique group.
You submit your novel one chapter at a time with the aim of receiving between three and five critiques on each one. There are usually published and unpublished authors offering useful advice and insight.
You are expected to critice others work too of course, but you will learn a lot from that too. They are great exercises in active versus passive voice, PoV, showing versus telling etc.
It will amaze you how focused you become when specific weak spots are pointed out, and if you feel your plotline is a bit thin, just ask the group for input and the scenarios will come flooding in.

Hope that helps

Anita Davison
Duking Days Rebellion & Duking Days Revolution from Enspiren Press

Anita Davison pulls off an excellent sequel to Duking Days Rebellion with this book. I very much enjoyed learning more about about the characters from the first book and how they lives have changed from the effects of the war a few years before. Helena has gorwn into a woman with great strength and passion. The secondary characters are well drawn and fascinating additions to the story. Ms Davison writes beautifully of the 17th century period, drawing the reader in so that we feel a part of the characters' lives and we can experience the atmosphere of that era.

Reading Duking Days: Revolution is like stepping back in time. Anita Davidson makes the transition flawless for the reader as she reunites them with the Woulfe family. Though I read Duking Days: Revolution before Anita's earlier novel, 'Duking Days: Rebellion', the skill with which the author draws her readers into the family's epic sage ensured my thorough enjoyment through every page. The rich tapestry Anita weaves, of life in the 17th C, is captivating, the action is intense, while the characters and their situations are rivetting. A beautifully crafted novel that delivers all a Romance reader could want and more.

After reading Anita Davison's first offering about 17th century England, I have no hesitation in the least to purchase her second book. Until I experienced her descriptive style and realized her ability to meld reader with the characters and time period, I had no idea how much I would enjoy my trip through England's history. This author brings such reality to the story, I felt as though I sat beside Helena in the family carriage as it rolled over the cobblestone streets. I felt her fears, shared her joys, and cried with her when she believed her world was collapsing around her. The story was inspiring and left me anxious for the next installment. I highly recommend anything Ms. Davison writes. You'll be telling your friends about her as I'm telling you. Trust me. She's found a fan in me.