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Writing Update / TSO Concert

Short story submissions, draft 12 progress, and musings about Trans Siberian Orchestra from an oldish fan.

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Stumbling Through

A poem about clumsily pursuing every opportunity, hoping one of them holds the answer you seek.

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Deleted Scene and Dialogue Tips

How you work with dialogue and dialogue tags affects whether your scene has "Talking Head Syndrome" or not. With a snippet of a recently deleted scene from my WIP, here is a short lesson regarding that.

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is not about a minotaur playing a trumpet on a random pillar. It is about a man. I cannot say anything else because the entire book is a plot twist as intricate and intense as the twisting halls and tides in the house (vast, vast world) where it takes place.