Category: dialogue

What I’m learning as I write my novel, part 2

In my previous blog entry, I began listing some things I’m learning as I write my current novel. Here are some more: Let the story unfold like a snowflake. When writing the discovery draft of a novel, I like to use the snowflake method. This is a method created by writer Randy Ingermanson. I mentioned…

January 15, 2015
Writing Blog Roundup: dialogue tags, avoid procrastination, two pages, idiot characters, hero’s journey

What I read this week in writing blogs: Help with dialogue tags. What about “he said”/”she said”—do you need them? Ten tips to help you avoid procrastination. A couple of weeks ago I talked about this distracting world we live in and how procrastinating has been refined into an art form of sorts. Two pages…

September 2, 2013

What I’m learning as I write my novel, part 2