Punctuating Dialogue

Writing Tips ✧ ➸ “This is a sentence.” ➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said. ➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.” ➸ “This is a sentence,” she said....

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BoingBoing blogger and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow admits the internet can be an “attention black hole,” but the prolific scribe learned how to actually write while staying open to the wealth of the web.

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Christina Rose Andrews Official Author Page - This guy knows what he's talking about. He's one...

nudityandnerdery: This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

I Whump You

One of the best tips for writing descriptions of pain is actually a snippet I remember from a story where a character is given a host of colored pencils and asked to draw an egg. The character says...