Category Archives: authorial control
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Fear and Trembling and the Writing Process
Leave a commentApril 7, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
We’re reading the Romantics now in Brit Lit. One of the drums they beat (and they beat a lot of …
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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…Lord of the Flies
Leave a commentNovember 11, 2016 by bradcharlesbeals
Lord of the Flies by William Golding Book beginnings have always fascinated me. Maybe it was the opening of Genesis …
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