Once our story’s flow is in good shape, we might not know how to take the next editing step. We can self-edit through the line-editing stage, but it’s difficult. Wendy Sparrow’s worksheet may help.
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It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re digging into how to make our characters interact with our setting.
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It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re digging into what it means to treat our settings as characters.
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As we develop a story idea, how do we know if all the pieces fit together? Guest Jael R. Bakari is sharing her process for keeping track of all the details.
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For all the writing advice in the world, there’s comparatively little about chapters specifically, such as if or how we should title them.
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We’ve discussed POV and voice, but what does the term “word choice” mean, how does it affect our writing, and what goes into choosing the right words?
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Why is POV so important to understand? The better we understand the power of our character’s POV, the stronger we can make our characters and our story.
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Third-person POV ranges from the most distant to the deepest perspectives, so how can we tell where our story falls on the POV spectrum to avoid problems?
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For dialogue attribution, action beats are more flexible than dialogue tags for our writing, adding details to our story and immersing readers in the scene.
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We probably think we know everything about dialogue formatting already, but let’s make sure we know all there is to know before assuming.
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