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Contest Aftermath
Last year, I did a series on entering contests. This year, I did some pre-contest edits for several people, as well as answered copious e-mails about the ACFW Genesis contest from a judge’s pers… more →
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Make POV Work for You: Mixed Point of View
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Kaye Dacus wrote 1 month ago: One of the books on my reading list this year is Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. I thought I … more →
Make POV Work for You: Writing the Male POV
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Kaye Dacus wrote 1 month ago: This has to be one of the most popular topics amongst female authors at any conference out there. An … more →
Make POV Work for You: Show Don't Tell (Part 2)
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Okay, one more contest judging anecdote. I’m currently judging entries in a first-three-pages … more →
Make POV Work for You: More on Character Description
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Don’t forget, each comment you leave (one per post) between now and May 29 earns you an entry … more →
Make POV Work for You: Show Don't Tell (Part 1)
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Don’t forget, each comment you leave (one per post) between now and May 29 earns you an entry … more →
Make POV Work for You: Character Vocabulary
Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: One of the best things we can do to take Point of View deeper is to start recognizing that each char … more →
Make POV Work for You: The Unreliable Narrator
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: I’ve quoted it here a few times, but it’s simply the most apropos quotation to use for t … more →
Make POV Work for You: Avoiding Head-Hopping
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: I know what you’re thinking—we’ve already determined that head-hopping isn’t … more →
Make POV Work for You: I'm Ready for My Closeup
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Go deeper. Don’t keep the reader at arms’ length from the character. Author intrusion. E … more →
Make POV Work for You: POV Begins with Character
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: No discussion of Point of View is complete without beginning with characters. Whether you’re a … more →
Make POV Work for You: Dispelling a Few POV Myths
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: After having lunch with fellow Tennessee author Kathy Cretsinger yesterday (who’s on her way t … more →
Make POV Work for You--Introduction
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Point of View. It’s a term that we’ve all known since we were in elementary school and s … more →
Upcoming Series: Make Point of View Work for You
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: About two years ago, I did a series that introduced some of the basic precepts of what Point of View … more →
Writing Descriptions: Make Setting a Character
Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: One of the best ways to incorporate descriptions of your setting into your story is by making the se … more →
Writing Descriptions: Setting the Scene
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: Writing description of setting is where we really get into using all five senses and showing vs. tel … more →
Writing Descriptions: How Important Is the Setting?
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab … more →
Be Your Own Casting Director Refresher
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Kaye Dacus wrote 4 months ago: Because I found out late last week that I’m needed to do some more on-site editing work Monday … more →
Conflict Series Refresher
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Kaye Dacus wrote 4 months ago: What’s a story without good conflict? Well, not much of a story at all! So here’s a litt … more →
Stir Up Your Setting Refresher
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Kaye Dacus wrote 4 months ago: I love writing and reading stories that have great settings—to a point. I want the setting to … more →
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