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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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Make it Better

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I met my little sister for dinner recently and said, “It’s time for you to start taking your writing seriously. It’s time for you to start proofreading!”

She just frowned and said, “But I do! That’s the thing. I don’t know how to make it better!”

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Stressed and Unstressed Syllables

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

There are basically two standard ways of indicating stressed syllables: by adding a vertical stress mark after each stressed syllable, or by making each stressed syllable bold or UPPERCASE (or BOTH). You can see an example of the stress marks at Dictionary.net, and you can see an example of the bold syllable at Dictionary.com.

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Tricks Writers Know (or “Whom Cares about this Stuff?”)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

I’ve been writing for a week now, and I haven’t given you one word of practical advice, have I? Oh, sure, there’s promises aplenty, and I do need to spend some time negotiating a connection before I can start transferring knowledge, but when it comes right down to it, you’re here to learn how to [...]

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