Category: dialogue
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Four Dialogue Writing Exercises
Four Dialogue Writing Exercises
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No-No: On-the-Nose Dialogue
On-the-nose dialogue = bad. Got it. But where do you go from here?
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Dialogue: Small Words, Big Clarity
Dialogue tags and attribution: small words, big clarity
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The Music of Dialogue
Rhythm, pacing, and flow: the music of dialogue
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Dialogue: It’s not just what characters say
Dialogue: It’s not just what characters say, it’s what the story does when they speak.
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Writing With Scene Beats
If plot is the skeleton and character, is the heart. Beats are the nervous system. They carry every signal, every reaction, every emotional pulse through your story. Master beats—and suddenly everything else gets sharper.
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Voices Without Faces: A Dialogue-Only Writing Experiment
I just finished Brandon Sanderson‘s Tailored Realities. It was not what I thought it would be. Yes, I knew it was a collection of short stories, but with surprise me is the inspiration I found through his writing craft observations. My review of Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson These nuggets of writing wisdom are found…
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Friday’s Findings: Ways to Start a Writing Session
In my last blog posting, I talked about using copy work to get started for a writing session. The concept goes like this: for five minutes, copy word-for-word, a few paragraphs of your favorite author or novel. Then start your actual work-in-progress (WIP). It made me realize copy work is just one way to warm…
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Friday’s Findings: Audio Annotations
“The point of being a god is to have the joint running to your specifications.” -Guy Vesten, The Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky This is just one of several quotes I got from the novella I listened to today, Tchaikovsky’s The Hungry Gods (THG). It wasn’t very long – only five hours – and I…
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