A Look at Masterful Voice
I love talking about voice in fiction. I veer off from other “experts” in definition about voice. I believe that…
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Masterful Narrative Scenes Part 2
Narrative scenes are ones in which the story is being told, not shown. Last week we looked at a passage…
Masterful Narrative Scenes in Novels
Show, don’t tell. Yeah, we know that’s the rule. But there are times when scenes can be masterfully told by the…
Masterful Setting Description Part 3
Masterful setting description teaches us an important lesson: writers need to take the time to paint enough of a sensory-rich…
Masterful Setting Description Part 2
Setting description in most novels is the weakest element. As with character description, many writers don’t want to bother describing…
A Look at Masterful Setting Description
Masterful writing must seep into every corner of a novel. We looked briefly at the description of characters in the…
Masterful Verbs and Adjectives Part 2
Last week we looked at some of the creative usages of nouns, verbs, and adjectives by my favorite author Patricia…
Masterful Uses of Verbs and Adjectives
One of the adages I learned from my whacky high school English teacher was this: use strong nouns and verbs….
A Look at Masterful Character Description Part 4
We’ve been looking at masterful character description over these last weeks, and I hope you notice one thing in particular:…
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