Writing Tips

Simple Dialogue Tips to Add Voice to Your Characters

By Adam P. Lewis To quote Stephen King, “It’s dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.” I’ve reviewed stories for various publications for the past five years, and what I’ve noticed in many submissions is the lack of characterization and structure in dialogue. As a reviewer and as [...]

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Notes on Writing Weird Fiction

By H.P. Lovecraft My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature. I [...]

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READERS AND WRITERS CORNER

My name is Walt Trizna.  I am a longtime member of the Wordwrights, and during the course of my writing career, I have gathered information on many aspects of publishing material.  I am also an avid reader and would like to share free sources I have found where novels, short stories and poetry are available.  [...]

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