Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
carriejonesbooks No Flat Writing A lot of writers will worry that their stories seem flat. There’s a reason that they are worrying about that and it’s one of the core elements…
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Do You Need a Beta Reader? Also, Georgia Police Say Don’t Copulate Outside McDonalds.
So, in the world of writing, everyone talks about needing a beta reader and a critique partner. Everyone that is, except Carrie, who has trust issues and survives as a…
Setting Is SO FREAKING Important
Setting is where your story happens. It’s the time period. It’s the physical place. You can have more than one setting. There. That’s the definition. We’re all good, right? Wrong.…
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
On last week’s podcast and the one a few before that, and in a post, Shaun and I talked a bit about plot structures and narrative structures and how here…
The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Talking about show vs tell at the scene level is a little bit harder than talking about it at the paragraph and scene levels. But it’s also a tiny bit…