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Posts by tylerharms‭

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Q&A Effective ways to enrich your active vocabulary?

Read out loud whenever you get the chance. Hearing a word spoken adds another point of reference to the word--along with seeing it, interpreting it, and, potentially, writing it--and, like hearing ...

posted 11y ago by tylerharms‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Characters with no names

I've got a few short stories going, and I've foregone naming any of my characters. It started because I just didn't have any good names in my head and I was going to take care of it later, but now ...

3 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by tylerharms‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A avoiding making all your characters sound the same

I think speech idiosyncrasies are a part of distinguishing characters from each other, but they are, more than anything, stylistic, writerly flourishes. Conan Doyle didn't define Sherlock Holmes's ...

posted 11y ago by tylerharms‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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