Write the Tightrope: A Shortcut to Balance in Fiction Writing
Have you ever been at a party with that person who just won’t stop talking? Well, it’s the same thing with your writing. Fiction is built, more or less, out of four basic parts: dialogue, thoughts, actions, and descriptions. All the best fiction has a good balance of these four parts, and when you get too much or too little, bad things start to happen. If all your characters do is talk, your readers will stop listening. If all your characters do is move, your readers will wish for a little emotional depth. If all they do is describe things, your readers will be like, “Oh my God, his eyes were BLUE we get it already!” This is an issue I’ve worked with a ton in my editing business, and so I eventually came up with a quicker way for... Read More
