Tag Archives: narration

  1. Fear and Trembling and the Writing Process

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    April 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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    Category: authorial control, fiction, novel, writing, writing process | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  2. Two (more) Uses for the Indirect Quote

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    March 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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    Category: fiction, fiction, narration, narrative voice, novel, quotation, quoting text, style and voice, tension, Uncategorized, writing | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Indirect Quotation as a Breather

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    March 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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    Category: attribution, fiction, fiction, narration, narrative voice, quotation, quoting text, style and voice, tension, voice, writing | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  4. Voice and the elusive 2nd person

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    November 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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    Category: fiction, first person, narration, narrative voice, novel, second person, style and voice, third person, writing | Tags: , , , , , ,

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