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What I Learned About Writing This Week…from King and Straub

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Mr. Stephen King and Mr. Peter Straub, that is. These two gentlemen co-wrote a couple books, if you didn’t know. And I’m currently enjoying the second of that couple most muchly, yup. The first, The Talisman, I read years and years ago. So, before I started this new read, I hied myself to my local [...]

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A Matter of Voice

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Weak verb forms will have been murdered by this blog post.

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Strong Sentences and 3D Storytelling

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

I’ve mentioned this before, but my dad is (among many other things) a speech professor and an accomplished storyteller. I was talking with him last week about some difficulties he’s had in his creative writing, though, trying to achieve the sort of impact and effect he can get effortlessly with the spoken word. The problem, [...]

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