Tag: Foreshadowing

• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting

  

  We kicked off this series about the basics of self-editing in last week’s post. For the next few weeks, we’ll discuss the first step of self-editing, the structural edit. Structural or developmental editing is the phase of the editing process where we focus on the individual elements of our stories and ensure that each fits…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 7, 2025

  Writing

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• 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

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