
Punctuation and Last Note
Punctuation “Commas can save your life.” A writing teacher told me that. The idea is that the...
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Posted by Michael Kimball | Aug 25, 2015 | The One-Hour MFA |
Punctuation “Commas can save your life.” A writing teacher told me that. The idea is that the...
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Endings I don’t like to know how a piece of fiction I’m writing is going to end. This is true when...
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Description and Details I cut a lot of description out of my novels. I will stop reading a short...
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Character A writer can’t actually create people. The characters are only scratches on the page....
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On the continuum of how much voice (in a sense, style) can be infused into a particular piece of fiction, I have always thought first-person narration allows the fiction writer the most latitude, the most difference.
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Working with acoustics is a different way to find the right word, or the right place for the right word. It’s a different way to write or revise a sentence or a group of sentences.
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Word Counts Getting the material down is the hardest part for me. Because of this, I often find it...
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This is the best advice I have learned concerning different ways to think about openings, process, story and plot, language and sentences, acoustics, syntax and diction, narration and voice, character, dialogue, description and details, figurative language, endings, revision, and punctuation.
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