Category: nonfiction

TC Boyle Week #5–Dealing with dialogue and tags

Jun 13, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fancy footwork, fiction, nonfiction, novels, short stories, writing technique

A common problem with dialogue? Too many tags, or tags that are just a bit hokey. Here’s an example of the problem: “Yes,” she said. “No!” he exclaimed. “Why?” she inquired. “Because we have to get out of the rain and under cover,” he said, inTENTly. And so on, and so on, and….…
TC Boyle week: #1–a story starter for you!

Jun 10, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, nonfiction, short stories, starters

This week at fighttowrite.com, we’re going to check in with short story writer extraordinaire, T. C. Boyle, via his short story “The Night of the Satellite.” Let’s begin with the beginning: What we were arguing about that night–and it was late, very late, 3:10 A. M. by my watch–was something that had happened nearly twelve…