Posts by Adrian McCarthy
Several blogs demonstrate before/after (or at least detailed line-edits on early drafts). Evil Editor often does it for query letters. Edittorrent covers all sorts of topics, and the archives hav...
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I'm going to try the practice-practice-practice answer, but what has been helping me up until now is editing. Go ahead and write the first draft with whatever words come to mind. Don't let search...
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Mark Baker has a great answer if the simultaneous action and dialogue is a one-time thing, which I assume is the case here. But if a character has a persistent tic interwoven with their dialogue, ...
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