Dialog Choices and Slang – a writing post

Dialog choice, or the words your character uses to describe the world around them, is a major deal breaker for books. If all the characters sound the same they lose their individual personalities. One of the big places where you’ll see a variation in a shared language is in slang…

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A Season of Change

Spring break up is here, bringing black ice, snow melt, and 15-hours of daylight. I’m finally shaking off the seasonal depression and have packed my happy lamp away. Which means it’s time to assess the damage depression has done. We sometimes think of depression solely in terms of emotional damage….

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The Scent of Memory

It’s wrong to say I woke to the smell in the pre-dawn light, because mid-April in Anchorage means 15 hours of daylight and the sun was up well before I was. But it was the wee hours of the morning when I woke to a familiar smell. The memory of…

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Book Your Spring 2017 Edits Today!

I am taking on new clients between now and April 3rd to fill the rest of my spring 2017 editing calendar. Submission Packet Critique (synopsis, query, and first 5 pages) $25 Indie Author Special (blurb, 5 twitter pitches, and first 5 pages) $25  First Chapter (up to 20 pages)  $50.00 and a 1…

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