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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.
Description: What if we are stymied in our plotting, and can't think of enough story? Here are some thoughts on how we might get to work.  Also; one of the best ways we can reveal our characters to readers is with the characters' own words, with their dialogue. Here are some thoughts on showing--as opposed to telling--with dialogue. Also, this episode contains the words "oaf," "poltroon," and "knucklehead," such words being like salt; they make anything better.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  ...