Tuesday Choice Words

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Nine No's of Dialogue from diy MFA is an excellent examination of how we can strengthen our dialogue.

Harness the Power of Words on the Finding Bliss site discusses the intentional and clever use of words to enrich our writing.

Treasures in the Attic is the latest in the Making the Most of Ideas series of articles by David B Coe on the Magical Words site.

How Stephen King Writes Imagery from Galleycat offers some excellent writing advice from one of my writing favourites.

Stay On Target: When is a Subplot Leading You Astray? from The Other Side of the Story talks about the  value and danger of subplots.

Comments

  1. Kelly Hashway13 November 2012 at 11:48

    Ooh, the Stephen King one look really good.

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  2. shelly13 November 2012 at 14:08

    Thank you again for these great articles.

    Hugs and chocolate,
    Shelly

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