Tag: Writing Dialogue

• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Characters

  

  Welcome back to our series about self-editing! We’ve already covered The Basics of Self-Editing and The Structural Edit – Plot and Setting. Today is all about characters. We’re going to cover: As the title suggests, this post breaks down those character development and POV issues we should look for while we edit our manuscripts. But…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 14, 2025

  Writing

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• Let’s Write – Dialogue

  

  For many of us, the ultimate goal is to write good stories that keep our readers submerged in our stories. That’s certainly my greatest motivator whenever I write. But it’s so easy to include quirks that yank our readers right out of our stories and dump them back into the real world. I don’t know…

  Yolandie Horak

  March 25, 2024

  Writing

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