ASSOCIATE MEMBER BLOG TAG: dialogue
| Friday, February 4, 2011 3:39PM | | | | How It's Made: Taking Writing Apart | Tags: Dialogue, Flashback, Metaphor, Motif, Narrative, POV, Punctuation, Scene, Simile, Theme, Word Order, Wordplay
| | | Remember those cartoons where the guy (it's usually a guy) takes the car engine apart to see out how it works? Well, that approach can work for writing, too. Of course, just like that guy, you may end up with parts you don't need. But unlike that guy, you could end up better off without those parts. The key is to study the author's work and ask probing questions to get at how the writing is made.
Last summer I attended the Solstice Summer Writers Conference at Pine Manor... | | | | | |
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