Category: description
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What Does Seduction Look Like?
Max, a young writer, asks: I am writing a story and need a visual description for a female “seductive” (if you know what I mean) […]
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5 Tips on Telling Backstory without Interrupting the Flow
A long time ago, in a post far away, Sara, a reader of this blog (at least back then she was; I don’t know whether […]
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Pulling Us Into Your World
The idea for this episode actually came from a question someone posed on a writer’s board. How do you write short descriptions that still give […]
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Info Dumps Suck
This can be counted another Stupid Story Mistake. Summer posted at the Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas about a discussion between her, Jack Mangan, and Mur […]
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How to Moralize Without Getting Preachy
I mentioned in my review of Peanut Butter and Tofu on Jewish Rye that the play moralizes without getting preachy. The way to accomplish this […]
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