Tag: Better Dialogue

• To Say or Not to Say

  

  So you’re a writer. Welcome to the club, please pick your t-shirt from the pile and have a seat. You’ve probably been around the interwebs and have no doubt found an article or two on the topic of said. You know, dialogue tags. There are two firm groups of thought here. Okay, okay – two […]

  Yolandie Horak

  September 22, 2017

  Writing

  Better Dialogue, Better Writing, Dialogue Tags, Invisible Words, Is Said Dead?, Said, Said Is Dead, Said Isn’t Dead, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice

• Writing, as Taught by Kids’ TV Shows

  

  A year or so ago, I read a writing exercise idea on a blog that changed the way I view watching TV. The blogger in question would make notes of, then dissect the episode she was watching. She’d figure out which plot points worked, which didn’t, where the dialogue fell flat, where it rocked, and […]

  Yolandie Horak

  June 28, 2017

  Writing

  Better Dialogue, Better Writing, Character Development, Creativity, Foreshadowing, Learning Something New, My Little Pony, Series, Suits, TV, Typeface, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writing, Writing Advice