Category Archives: fiction
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That Elusive Stack of Dimes
Leave a commentApril 21, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
As research for a character I was developing a few years ago, I tried my hand at blacksmithing. It …
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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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Ups and Downs and Louds and Softs
1March 31, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
“This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing …
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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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