Category: Writerly Round-Up
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Writerly Round-Up (26 May – 1 June)
Writers use red herrings the way magicians use sleight of hand—to distract their readers from seeing what’s really there. In this video tutorial, award-winning author Jane K. Cleland explains how to use red herrings to build page-turning suspense.
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Writerly Round-Up (19 – 25 May)
Dialogue: Abused and Misused by Joni M. Fisher Savvy Authors Blog People recognize terrible dialogue when they hear it in movies, or on television or read it in books. It comes off wooden, robotic, confusing, lecturing, boring or in some way artificial sounding. Examples abound in B-grade movies, comic books, soap operas, and probably in…
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Writerly Round-Up (12 – 18 May)
In my youth, I wanted to be older than my brother, I thought I could run the world and time passed at a snail’s pace. Funny how my take on reality has changed. I am okay with my brother being the oldest of 8, I am not going to run for president in 2020 and…