EPISODE 18 - DRAWING PICTURES WITH WORDS

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HOLLOW WORDS vs VIBRANT IMAGES ~ DO YOU USE WORDS TO DRAW PICTURES FOR YOUR READERS?

Wednesday, July 22 4:00pm PDT/7:00EDT
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Hosts Morgan St. James, author of 14 books, and Eric James Miller, author and President of Writers of Southern Nevada, discuss one of the key elements in writing fiction---the art of drawing pictures with words using artful, rhythmic prose.

"The trick is to also make it simple and direct. This technique of using words to trigger a mental image is a variation of show, don’t tell."
Language that is too sophisticated, complex or gimmicky, or long blocks of flat narrative sometimes called a laundry list, often trigger inattention instead of creating a visual experience.

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EPISODE 17 - MISTAKES WRITERS MAKE

EPISODE 17
THE TRICK IS TO RECOGNIZE BLOOPERS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Sometimes it’s what you AREN’T doing, rather than what you ARE doing. On this show we’ll discuss both. Pitfalls  could become prat- falls -- you know those dramatic, stumbling falls actors sometimes take in comedies, which is something we definitely don't want to do. We'll talk about mistakes in the craft - things like grammatical or punctuation errors, and mistakes in the business of writing.