by Jesper Schmidt | Aug 24, 2020 | Podcast, Tips, Worldbuilding, Writing
Is there such a thing as good and bad tropes, or are tropes just tropes? Join Autumn and Jesper as they dive into the land of clichés, but also stumbles over some fantasy gems. Episode 87 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast will walk you through some of the common...
by Autumn | Mar 6, 2019 | Tips, Writing
How many characters are speaking in a paragraph of your writing? Really, the question is how many characters should be speaking in one paragraph? We’ve been covering dialogue for a few posts now, and it is time to move on from ways of designating who is speaking with...
by Autumn | Oct 22, 2018 | Tips
Welcome to the third post on dialogue. In the last two, we’ve covered dialogue tags and how to use adverbs to accentuate those. Now we are on to action tags! Before we get into those, let’s look at how far the examples have come: “Where is it?” Cameron asked....
by Autumn | Sep 26, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Last time, we delved into dialogue tags, including if you really always have to use “said.” There was a lot covered in that post and if you missed it, check it out here. In our examples, we managed to clarify who was speaking and how many people are...
by Autumn | Sep 10, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Dialogue is so important to a story. It breaks up pages of prose. It reveals a character’s personality like no other method except for internal thoughts. But so many authors get it wrong. And that is understandable because there is a lot going on with dialogue. In...