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Monthly Archives: February 2018

Voice and Imitation
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February 28, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals

The athlete doesn’t train to get good at training. He doesn’t ride a stationary bike or spend time in the …
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Category: fiction, fiction, imitation, modeling, narration, narrative voice, novel, reading, style and voice, Uncategorized, voice, writing
Playing Tag: 3 attribution alternatives for cleaner dialogue
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February 23, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals

Attributing quotation to the right speaker is essential for clarity, but the traditional tag (he said…she said…said the butler) is …
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Category: attribution, authorial control, copywriting, dialog, dialogue, editing, editing, fiction, quotation, quoting text, style and voice, Uncategorized | Tags: attribution, attribution tag, dialogue, dialogue tag, editing, fiction, quotation, quotes, quoting text, writing
A Present Tense Confessional
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February 21, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals

Recently I concluded that the novel I’m working on would work better in the past tense, so I spent a …
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Category: authorial control, fiction, fiction, narration, novel, past tense, present tense, style and voice, tense, writing
Where to Begin…All the Light We Cannot See
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February 17, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals

Short chapters. Alternating characters and story lines. One after another. Kind of like these fragments. Thought I might get annoyed. …
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Category: Uncategorized

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