Actions Speak Louder than Dialog Tags: Using Beats in Writing
This month our editors are taking a hard look at pesky adverbs and “weasel words”—our Fatal Flaw #11. Even a…
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Talking Heads Avoidance Device
Back in August, we spent a month going over one of the fatal flaws in fiction writing: Flawed Dialogue Construction….
How Writers Can Seek and Destroy Banal and Obvious Dialog
This month our editors have attacked Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. Dialog is a tricky component to master in…
Unnecessary Discourse, Talking Heads, and the British Butler Syndrome
Today editor Christy Distler tackles further pitfalls of dialog in our month-long look at Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog…
How to Write Dialog That Sounds like Real Speech
Today editor Linda Clare tackles further pitfalls of dialog in our look at Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. If…
Dialog Writing 101: Conversational Mechanics
This month our editors are taking a hard and tough look at Fatal Flaw # 8: Flawed Dialog Construction. Dialog…
The Two-Edged Sword of Backstory in Dialog
This week editor Christy Distler tackles Fatal Flaw #4—Too Much Backstory. In this month’s posts, we’ve been looking at the…
Creating Engaging Dialog by Using Subtext
We’ve been looking at the basic components to constructing great dialog in our fiction. As one of the twelve key pillars…
Dialog: Compressed and Essential
Dialog is the element that brings stories alive. Imagine reading an entire novel void of dialog. Trying to sustain a…
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