Tag: tips
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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?
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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…
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Removing Filler Dialogue
Before diving into repetitive character dialogue it would be important to go over a starting point. I’m dividing dialogue editing into two parts. Personally I like to start with making sure cutting filler dialogue. Filler dialogue looks like this: “Hello.” “Hello.” “How are you?” “Good, how are you?” That basic exchange I have with people…
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Sticking to a Word Count
Writing often involves thinking about how many words we can write. How long should a novel or story be? It’s easy to think in word counts. Most writing platforms count the number of words in a piece. How many words does one type on a document? I suppose we could manually count words those of…
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Written Scenes Too Much Too Little?
Hello! Hope you all are having an excellent start to the week. Going through Klytië’s manuscript, I realized in all the rewrites, I added and removed details for various plot points that don’t actually mean anything. I have little scenes within larger scenes and go from extensive descriptions to barely any. There are some sections…
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My Favorite Podcasts RN
Like I said the other week, I love having white noise but lately I’ve gotten into podcasts. Especially as an easy way to learn tips and tricks while cleaning my apartment or cooking or sketching ideas. So here are some of the ones I’ve really come to enjoy.
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3rd Person POV…
There are two different types of third-person POV. The first subdivision is the third-person omniscient. I love using Lemony Snicket’s series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Mostly because the narrator creeped me out as a kid. But he was a compelling narrator in the third person omniscient. He had opinions and was not directly involved in…
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Self-Editing: Where to Start.
So you have a finished manuscript. It’s over 100,000 words (if a novel). Probably over a hundred pages, and it feels great. Or maybe sad. I’m always sad when a story ends. I haven’t figured out if that’s because my endings just don’t work or if I just love the world I created too much.…
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Grammar Friendly Foe?
To be entirely honest, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with grammar. I love it in that it really helps clarify what is being said or written. However, with the growth of online writing and messaging rather than writing letters new structures of language emerge. Which isn’t really a beast to get into here, at…
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Small Level Story Structure
Last week, I rambled about a metaphor in story structure and how I want the story’s big picture to progress. Today I’ll hopefully provide a more legitimate theory and less abstract thought process about the parts of the beginning, middle, and end. I can’t promise to stay away from metaphors, though.
Camile Grant 