Category Archives: style and voice
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We Are Writer Nomads
Leave a commentNovember 14, 2019 by bradcharlesbeals
We love our writing spaces, don’t we? And that’s good; the right physical environment is important. But there’s a space …
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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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Nouns and the Realpolitik
Leave a commentApril 14, 2018 by bradcharlesbeals
I run a search for the term Web site and find these: website, web site, web-site, Website, Web site, Web-site, …
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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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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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