Guest Post by Peter Langella When I first began writing seriously, I was just telling stories. I wasn’t thinking about plot or structure or the concrete and abstract desires of my characters. Sure, a lot of that found its way into my drafts, but it wasn’t my focus when I brainstormed or sat at the…
The objective correlative is a fantastic technique that you can use to create emotion in your writing. It empowers writers to move away from abstraction (i.e. using direct words like angry, sad, or afraid, which are abstract to the reader) and color a character’s emotion with imagery, metaphor, and meaning. Originally coined as a literary…
By Jeff Schill I love dialogue. To me, a story is all about the characters. And I especially enjoy when these characters interact with one other. But at the same time, dialogue can fall flat when it does not resonate or make the reader feel something. Dialogue is much more than just the words on…