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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 [...]
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 #46 – Great Dialog (pa...
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
We talk most of the time – except for when we’re not. The gift of language is part of our existence. We communicate with words far more often and easily than we do through writing or even through an expression like a glare or a smile. And yet much of the time, in conversation as in life, things are not wh [...]
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
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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
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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 [...]
Anything but boring! The Perfect read!
A Perfect Gem is the perfect read for anyone who enjoys a great plot with superior sub-plots. There's just the right amount of suspense, intrigue, anguish, romance, along with a few twists that will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime.
Christa finally has everything! After working her way up the ladder, she has a solid career in a prestigeous law firm, two beautiful children and a wealthy husband who seems to adore her. But one cruel twist of fate was soon to turn her life upside down, and Christa would learn bad things can happen to good people.
Christa would soon find herself faced with one devastating shock after another that will make her question everything about her life, and her own judgment. Fueled by curiousity and the need to prove her life isn't a lie, Christa is drawn into a potentially life threatening situation. Little does she know, the worse is yet to come.
From fraud to murder and everything in between, even SHE could not predict the ending which lay before her. It would take every ounce of courage she possessed... Could she... Would she...
