Monthly Archives: March 2018
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10 Tools for Writer’s Block
1March 27, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
A car not starting is a car problem requiring a car solution. I understand that that’s stupidly obvious, but still, …
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Epistolaries at Dawn
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
Imitating another writer’s voice (as I wrote about here) requires time spent in the work of that writer, but picking …
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Two (more) Uses for the Indirect Quote
Leave a commentMarch 13, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
To speak or not to speak — that is the question. Last week I looked at the indirect quote as …
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Indirect Quotation as a Breather
Leave a commentMarch 10, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
For the bi-lingual, speaking in the second language can be tiring. There’s a scene in John LeCarre’s novel The Russia …
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Fiction and Random Things
Leave a commentMarch 6, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
verisimilitude: n; the appearance or semblance of truth. From our puny perspectives, the world around us is everyday filled with the …
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