I've recently started reading a lot of Post Apocalyptic fiction and have been kicking around a plot for one for several months. Anyway, just...
Well I just finished reading a book called Hooked by Les Edgerton, which turned out to be one of the better books on writing that I've read in a...
I don't think it's tacky at all. Sometimes I recognize when authors have done this and if I'm familiar with the original source, usually I laugh...
I would suggest reading some novels by British authors (Nick Hornby comes to mind) and see how they deal with it. They don't write their dialogue...
Thanks for the kind words. It's slow going in the beginning. I've sat at my computer all day and managed to type about two paragraphs. That...
I stumbled onto this site while looking for some new methods for character development, and could see that it was a good place to be. It'll be...
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