Monthly Archives: February 2018
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Voice and Imitation
2February 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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Playing Tag: 3 attribution alternatives for cleaner dialogue
Leave a commentFebruary 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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A Present Tense Confessional
Leave a commentFebruary 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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Where to Begin…All the Light We Cannot See
Leave a commentFebruary 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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