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Quick Fiction Fixes – Eliminate dialogue tags
We’re all busy, whether working full-time or chasing/chauffeuring kids around all day. Yet we’re also writers, striving to get our words on paper and then polish it to a sparkle. This column gives quick fixes for fiction manuscripts specifically for busy writers. Pick and choose what works best for you! Eliminate dialogue tags. These days,…
GROWING GRAMMAR: DIALOGUE
Writing dialogue is tricky enough. Then there’s that whole punctuation issue, unless, well, you’re William Faulkner, James Joyce, or Cormac McCarthy, to name a few. They dispensed with punctuation littering their prose, and critics deem them style-masters. (Try doing that in a Genesis contest!). Some might deem them confusion-masters, but that’s another column. The rules…
Quick Fiction Fixes – Too many action beats
We’re all busy, whether working full-time or chasing/chauffeuring kids around all day. Yet we’re also writers, striving to get our words on paper and then polish it to a sparkle. This column gives quick fixes for fiction manuscripts specifically for busy writers. Pick and choose what works best for you! Too many action beats The…
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