Monday, December 30, 2013

Amazing Action Dialogue Tips

I love to read other people's tips for writing dialogue. Today I stumbled upon a page written by Mary Rosenblum that just about shattered my ideas about dialogue.

Can you really dispel the use of 'said'? And how can you get your reader to picture an eventful scene whilst shoving dialogue into their eyestalks?

This post really changed the way I looked at dialogue.

Is it really possible to have your characters talk without using 'he said, she said' and so on? I myself had included some of the elements she talks about myself, but the biggest piece of advice that stuck otu to me was this:

Whatever characters performs the action, the reader will assume is the speaker.

While I don't think that 'said' or speech tags can be eliminated altogether (nor should they) they can be cut back like a bargain bin movie.

Aspiring writers will want to read this:

http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc11/action_tags.shtml

- Coty, Out

Thursday, December 5, 2013

New Time Management Book Out Now

Hey all. My new non-fiction book, Time Management Voodoo, is available now.

Here's What You'll Discover:

- The #1 Thing you Should be doing DAILY to accomplish
- The Two BIGGEST Enemies to Being Productive
- Why You SHOULDN'T Multi-Task (and why you'll get more done)
- What Your 'Peak' is, and why its important to Know
- The difference between Urgent Tasks and Important Task
- How to PROPERLY set and reach goals (mess this up, and the whole thing may be a waste)
- Why you NEED to take breaks instead of skipping them
- How I went on to write over 8,000 words in a single day for one book - and on a day most people don't do any real work!
- And lots more inside.

Grab your copy today, and start seeing higher productivity in just hours!

>> Download from Amazon

>> Download from Smashwords