Beyond action beats in dialogue
6 types of beats that bring writing alive Dialogue without anything else on the page feels like a screenplay—all setup for actors who will never arrive. In a film, the […]
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Will readers swallow your plot?
How interiority creates believable characters We’ve all read stories where the characters didn’t seem to be doing what a reasonable person would do in that situation. Heck, they’re not even
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Revealing emotion means more than “playing the organ”
“Playing the organ”: The action beat trap If you’re like many writers, your monitor is a veritable porcupine of sticky notes, many of them warning you away from the clichés
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