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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.
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New Review for PURSUED
Pursued by Winslow Eliot
“In this stunning thriller the reader is taken from the exquisite beauty of Hawaii to the high-rises of Sydney, stopping on the way in Milan. We join investigative reporter Leigh Garner as she pursues a mysterious stolen chalice. Gardner is one of the most likeable of heroines. A “Can Do” gal on a mi [...]
PURSUED by Winslow Eliot
Pursued by Winslow Eliot
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Pursued Print Edition
Pursued (Telemachus Press 2011) A storm — a disaster — the theft of a priceless chalice. Investigative reporter Leigh Gardner loved and admired scientist Kale Trenton from the time she f [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just Who Do You Trust? The Ones You Know Or The Ones You Knew
I found A Perfect Gem the perfect reading experience for a lazy Tuesday afternoon in the sun. Drawn into the story immediately, I connected with the short sayings about the powers of stones, a lot of which I happen to own. Getting farther into the book, I realized I was in for a wild ride as everything in the heroine's life dropped from her as though she fell off a cliff. She lost her husband, she lost her home and, given no other possibilities, she returned home to the father she despised and the boy with whom she had fallen in love when young.
Life never guarantees success in relationships and trying to hold onto fleeting emotions can be exhausting. Crista was blessed with a friend named Joon Ting, the lady who wrote a book about stones, who was also the only one able to restore her balance. May times throughout this book, Crista sought out Joon for friendship, help and the explanations of why life is so difficult for some and yet how easy it is for others to maintain the balance so many of us cannot. These people took the time to study life, not just live it. I even have a "Joon" in my life. Her name is tookat and when life's pressures make me sad, every time she tells me to throw an amber cloak over me, I get chills. I got chills many times during "A Perfect Gem".
I do not like to reveal the story in my reviews and this one even more than usual. It is a lesson in life as well as an entertaining story. Never say you can't go home again. I did, and like Crista, I ate my words. It's up to you whether you can go home again and whether you can admit some of the fault for a break-down in your family is your own. Not to mention, whether you have attained the grace to overcome it.
As for the normal things people like to know about a book such as were the characters well described? Definitely. Was the scenery such that you could see it and feel it? Definitely. Italia!! Oh, so scrumptious. You could feel it around you. Was the plot a good one? Definitely. All the twists and turns you could possibly want.
