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I’m currently nearing the end of a book I had highly anticipated reading for the past year, and I can say it has definitely not let me down. Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone is absolutely enthralling, and it has a movie already in production so if you too have wanted to read it,…
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Hello, all you learned literary lovers and notorious narrative nuts to this week’s blog post where we will explore and expound upon through exposition and example the exponential potential of the written word. As the astute may ascertain, I’m alluding to the alluring and ludicrous art of alliteration. Together we’ll unveil a variety of versatile…
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Ah, the the age-old question: is less more, or is more more? When it comes to word counts, most editors would probably argue less is more in terms of brevity over verbosity, but when it comes to verbal irony, it depends on what effect you’re trying to achieve with your writing. Overstatement and understatement are…
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Forget characterization and worldbuilding, sometimes you just need to dive right into the action. A duel between a couple mages. A secret meeting. A near-death experience. It’s a great way to get a reader’s attention, and that’s the point of in medias res—to start “in the middle of things.” In medias res is essentially a…
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Literary: Foreshadowing…
I am a plot-predictor, and I am shameless about it, so much so that I regularly ruin movies for my husband and get unfairly accused of having pre-watched. There’s something absolutely addicting about finding and following the little trail of bread crumbs a writer leaves for the audience to find, but nothing – absolutely NOTHING…
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Rhetoric: The Art of Repetition
Sometimes I think we as writers get so focused on the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “why” of story developing that we sometimes push aside the “how.” While telling a story with interesting characters and a well developed plot is awesome, telling it artfully is even better. How we tell a story affects its tone and…
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