Tag Archives: fiction
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Ups and Downs and Louds and Softs
1September 19, 2019 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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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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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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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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The Central Static Character
Leave a commentNovember 15, 2016 by bradcharlesbeals
A few years ago I wrote here that as writers we shouldn’t be afraid of leaving a character static as …
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Voice and the elusive 2nd person
Leave a commentNovember 8, 2016 by bradcharlesbeals
Narrative voice refers to the different forms that point of view can take in story telling. Most fiction, whether classic or …
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Cure for writer’s block
1October 11, 2016 by bradcharlesbeals
Knowledge. That’s the cure for writer’s block. Knowledge. And here’s the first thing you need to know: THAT THERE’S NO …
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