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This week I welcome the thrilling AND thriller writer duo: CK Webb and DJ Weaver, authors of Cruelty to Innocents and Collecting Innocents.
We’ll talk about how to write great dialog and welcome YOUR examples – give us a call!
We talk most of the time—exc [...]
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Great Dialog – Part 1 – W...
Listen to internet radio with WriteSpa Oasis for Writers on Blog Talk Radio
This week I welcome the thrilling AND thriller writer duo: CK Webb and DJ Weaver, authors of Cruelty to Innocents and Collecting Innocents.
We’ll talk about how to write great dialog and welcome YOUR examples – give us a call!
We talk most of the time—exc [...]
Writing Great Dialog
On this week’s WriteSpa’s BlogTalkRadio show, I’ll be chatting about great dialog, including how-to and examples of great dialog, with the thrilling AND thriller writer duo: CK Webb and DJ Weaver. Join us – callers welcome!
Every Thursday, 6 pm EST.
Nourish Your Writer’s Soul
Since spring is almost here, I’m offering “Writing through the year – Winter” as a free gift till March 21. Let me know if you’d like a copy – I’ll send you a SW coupon or the mobi file for your kindle.
Here’s what it’s about: (more…)
WriteSpa #48 – Great Dialog Part 3/3
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
Just as in life itself, there are three key components to every story, no matter how short or long, or simple or complex: People. Space. Time. In other words, characters, situations, events. For a story to work well, all three of these have to connect with each other in a relevant way. If you include a [...]
WriteSpa #47 – Great Dialog (part 2/3...
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
Last week you listened, you eavesdropped – you were surprised by nuance, misunderstanding, flow, pitch, tone… Now it’s time to write purposeful dialog. By ‘purposeful’ I mean dialog that
illuminates characters
moves the story along
and is fun (or harrowing) to read.
How?
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WriteSpa #33 – Sitting Is Deadl...
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
Scientists have discovered something new! Sitting is deadly. Spending most of your days with most of your weight resting on your delicate lower spine is dangerous, even if you regularly exercise.
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WriteSpa #29 – Biography
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
It always amazes how little we know about each other. When I lived in New York City, I remember looking up at the hundreds of windows in a random apartment building and imagining the real live stories going on within each apartment. Or watching my fellow subway travelers and wondering where they came from [...]
WriteSpa #22 – Writing Prompts
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For many years, every morning I write down three phrases that I call my ‘daily happinesses.’ These are simple – usually appealing – images that help me peek into another, more objective, reality.
In a way, they are also writing prompts. Each one of these little phrases conjures a vignette, a mood, a stor [...]
WriteSpa #6 – Men and women
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
A long time ago someone (a man) read a book I wrote and was startled into saying, “Wow! You write like a man!”
He meant it as a compliment. (more…)
Writer’s Block Revealed
In a recent essay on Writers Block and other Urban Legends (http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2009/08/writers-block-and-other-urban-legends.html#comments), Jay Stringer defines (and dismisses) the affliction that he says is erroneously labeled as writer’s block. At first, having suffered painfully from this alleged ‘affliction,’ I read his pie [...]
Favorite Dialogues – 1
From The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection.
“What are you doing there?” he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles. [...]
Favorite Dialogues – 2
From Sleeping Fires, by George Gissing
In this passage, middle-aged Langley seeks permission from eighteen-year-old Louis’s guardian, Lady Revill, to take the boy under his wing and help guide him through the shoals of youthful adventuring. Lady Revill is a former lover of Langley with whom he has only recently reconnected, after a twenty-yea [...]
Writing Dialogue
It helps to think of dialogue as just ordinary conversation – that has a purpose. Monologue is a conversation one has with oneself. Dialogue is a conversation one has with someone else. There are always at leat two people involved in a dialogue.
Your task as a writer is, through the voices having the conversation, to allow your readers [...]
Sleepless Nights With Heaven Falls
Bravo to author Winslow Eliot for this sensual thriller! From an exclusive spa to exotic international locales this novel swept me into a world of intrigue, romance and glamour. The book is also a primer to aromatherapy, as each chapter begins with a description of the origin, medicinal uses and aroma-therapeutic uses of a specific essential oil. As one continues to read each chapter it becomes apparent why each oil was selected as heroine Tess Duncan needs the nourishing and balancing capacities of the specified oil in order to get through the trials which unfold in the novel.The pithy chapters engage the reader whetting ones appetite to continue. If you read it before bed I can guarantee sleepless nights as you don't want to put it down. Although I never left my house, I felt the same rejuvenation of a massage as I read this book and lost myself in Heaven Falls. I can't wait for Eliot to write her next book!
