Category: Creative Process/Craft
What Your Reader Cannot Possibly Know
What you don’t know as a writer, your reader has no hope of knowing. I will sometimes see phrases in stories like “her hair was…
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Voice
So what is good dialogue made of?* It is made of voice. This is when the writer must earn his or her keep. Writing strong…
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9 Reasons Dialogue = Good Writing
I wrote a short story this week. It may be the most dialogue-heavy piece I’ve ever written. I’ve been thinking a lot about dialogue. It…
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What I Am Most Proud Of
I have been asked a few times if I write longhand or on the computer. I have heard myself say that I do shorter pieces…
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The Thoughts We Have
My brother and I had a good talk late one recent evening about the value of writing. Not creative writing necessarily, but journaling, writing for…
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