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Writing Dialogue
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Jane Espenson’s latest blog entry is all about dialogue - particularly with some useful advice on keeping dialogue sounding naturalistic by including the false stops-and-starts and circumlocutions that come from everyday speech.
This was something I discovered very young, I ( Read more... ) -
Ars Poetica
Originally published at rspaulette.com. Please leave any comments there.
Been thinking a lot about writing lately.
Not about writing as a concept, but in actually writing. Imagine that: me, sitting at a keyboard, actually writing.
See, ‘06 was bit of a dryspell. Don’t care much about looking back to try and figure out why, but I do care about ( Read more... ) -
Longtime Coming
I'd claim a busy semester, but I suppose I mostly ( haven't had anything to say. ) -
"The First Draft of Everything..."
Been working on revisions the past couple of days. Poictesme has a fifteen page limit which, as everybody--including me--discovered last year, much to our collective shock, is troublesome for me. Not because I've had trouble meeting it, but because I've had trouble being limited by it. Believe it or not, fifteen pages ( isn't all that much. ) -
Felix Sit Annus Novus
Don't be fooled by the title--I looked it up. Either way, Happy 2006, everybody.
Yes, I realize this is my first post since, what, September? Yes, I realize that this post is under the influence of a glass and a half of champagne, two beers, and a shot of 80 proof scotch--but you know what? Who gives, right?!? It's m-f'n New Year's, and that ( Read more... ) -
Out of Coventry
Okay.
So, I'm a Bad Internet Russell, as it turns out. Looking at the cobwebs collecting on this thing got me progressively more and more depressed, but that's merely because I hadn't figured on anything interesting to say to everyone out there in Google-Land. Therefore, in the interest of full disclosure (and to avoid writing my current CHUD ( Read more... ) -
Birth (Short Story Post)
Finished the latest one, finally, at quarter-after-five this morning. 'Tis a bit over-clever, but I've been accused of worse ( Read more... )
