Dialogue is not only a way to learn about our characters, it also is a way to create tension. Dialogue is NOT supposed to be “just like real conversation.” Most “real conversation” is boring! Dialogue should not be boring. Dialogue: Should create an illusion of a conversation Must advance the Plot Should reveal the Characters by: Word choices. “Good day, sir”… Read More
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Rhetorical Devices: Finishing Touches to Make Your Writing Sing
Mark Twain is famous for this quote about writing: “Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” We often think that in longer works such as novels that we don’t necessarily have to worry about the succinctness or tightness of our writing…. Read More
