Tag: creative

  • Folk Lore

    Hello! Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day. Like most people St. Patrick’s Day brings to mind the color green, over drinking, beer, and the Irish. But for me it also brings to mind stories and Irish lore my parents and grandparents shared because of our Irish heritage. Truthfully Irish folk lore is one of my favorites…

  • Monday Memes

  • Future Free Write Fridays

    Future Free Write Fridays

    Hi all, In terms of wrapping up loose ends from last year, one thing I wanted to do but successfully did not do was free write Fridays. I’d like to eventually post consistently three days a week but sometimes I don’t plan well for that to happen. So I’m still going to leave Friday’s for…

  • Filling Out or Rewriting

    Filling Out or Rewriting

    Hello! Happy Wednesday! My next step in editing after doing the grammar edit is to usually re-read then fill out the areas where there seems to be something missing. I’m looking parts that might need a re-write or building up. This can take a while usually depending how much I’m reading and not seeing things…

  • Grammar, after free writing

    Grammar, after free writing

    Hi all Happy Wednesday! So continuing in our scene editing process (well mine take what you like and leave what you don’t) what’s next? Truthfully this is really a couple different steps. Usually for me I go through periods of avid writing long scenes and multiple scenes then I get stuck so I go back…

  • The First Step

    The First Step

    Happy Wednesday! And a Belated Happy Halloween. I realized too late I missed a golden opportunity for a Monday Meme that was Halloween themed. Next year! Let’s turn to the meat of writing and editing a scene. If you’ve read the other posts the last couple Wednesday’s you’ve got the tools to just start writing…

  • Dialogue in a Scene with a Large Cast of Characters

    Hi All! I hope your week is going well. I am going back and editing scenes where there is a large cast of characters in the room. Think thirty or so people sitting around a table holding a conversation but it’s focused solely on one person. The scene I’m currently in reads a little like…

  • Dialouge Resources

    Dialouge Resources

    I really love lists, so enjoy the spiral of reading resources I did trying to write my next dialogue article. Do you have any go to resources for when you want to write or edit dialogue?

  • Showing vs Telling In Dialogue

    Showing vs Telling In Dialogue

    Dialogue is essential often times in creating the necessary conflict in stories. But it is difficult to do mostly because of the easy short cuts that tell a reader everything the dialogue is supposed to convey. Take for example this exchange: “I’m fine,” she sighed even though she wasn’t fine. Nothing was fine. Cool. Okay…

  • Diverging Character Voices

    Diverging Character Voices

    In the glorious process of editing, I’ve been re-reading scenes, dialogue, and sentences. Perhaps one of the biggest concerns I’ve started coming to terms with is that I can’t tell if my character voices actually sound different or if they’re all still sounding the same. Part of the problem, is there are a lot of…