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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Tips for Writing Dialogue
Teddy Wayne
There are three forms dialogue can take: summary (They talked all class about dialogue), indirect speech (And did they enjoy the stories about dialogue?
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
When Logic Met Fiction
Tracy O’Neill
Students of logic and rhetoric will be familiar with the syllogistic formula: major premise, minor premise, conclusion. All wax melts
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
How to Write a Sex Scene
Rebecca Schiff
But what if I’m not filthy enough? you think. What if Bruce Springsteen is busy? Most sex scenes are read and forgotten
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
What a Nude Drawing Class Taught Me About POV in Fiction
Patricia Park
“For years I took the old creative writing adage of ‘show, don’t tell’ to heart. I’d detail every trip my characters took...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Notes on Dialogue
Tracy O’Neill
At a certain point in their careers, most fiction writers, in their critiques of dialogue, cease to complain, ‘But no one would really say that!
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
How to Read Like a Writer
Gabriel Roth
The first step in writing a novel is reading novels, is one of those truistic bits of canonical wisdom. Most would-be novelists are pleased to...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
On Writing Space
Dina Nayeri
I’ve been searching for a suitable writing space—a place that fits my mood, that feels sacred and creative and peaceful, that coaxes the...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Plot and Pacing
Simon Van Booy
For an author’s first book, I would suggest adhering to a basic plot structure, then deviating where and if it feels right
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Research Your Life
Alexander Chee
You know the least about your life precisely because, for living in it, you might barely notice it. You are from a place and you believe you know...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Tumbling Down a Hill in a House That is On Fire
Duane Swierczynski
The best bit of that advice, and one I would take to heart as a novelist, is the idea of keeping your readers off kilter whenever possible
