Writing Prompt: Escape
Escape… Where does your character go when she needs to escape and...
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Author: Brian Andrews
Tips for using “Tags” and “Beats” to improve your dialogue.
If you think dialogue is something that only happens “inside the quotation marks,” then think again. Yes, what your characters say matters immensely, but the savvy author knows that how they say it matters too. If you want to learn how to use “Tags” and “Beats” to elevate your dialogue, then read on!
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Writing Prompt: A pet begets a thousand words
Imagine your character buys a pet. What kind of animal is it and how does it inform his or her...
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Subtext: What Lies Beneath (Part 2 of 2)
Is what your characters say exactly what they mean? Here’s how you can add more to every scene—without changing one word of dialogue. How could these secrets change YOUR manuscript?
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Writing Prompt: Caught on Film…
Contemplate the power of incrimination. Contemplate the power of a photograph. How far would you go to bury the truth? How far would you go to expose it?
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Subtext – What Lies Beneath (Part 1 of 2)
Like a musical score, subtext is that underlying movement playing in the background—providing tempo, invoking emotion, accentuating action, and creating tension in your fiction. Without a musical score, a movie feels leaden and uninspired. Without subtext, the same is true for a novel.
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