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Articles: Writing natural dialogue & The state of traditional publishing

11/23/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 320 Views 0 Comments punctuating dialogue, rick taubold, traditional publishing, writing natural dialogue

From Rick: This week, given that it’s Thanksgiving week, I’m going to give myself a little breathing room here while still giving you a couple of useful articles to read. One of the most challenging aspects of fiction writing to

Grammar Punctuation

Some sticky punctuation questions: PART 2

10/05/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 339 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, rick taubold, sticky points of punctuation

(from the Chicago Manual of Style) From Rick: I decided to continue from last time with more of those sticky punctuation questions I found in the Chicago Manual of Style’s online Q&A. To avoid confusion, I’m going to pick up

Grammar Punctuation

Some sticky punctuation questions: PART 1

09/28/202010/05/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 397 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, rick taubold, tricky punctuation issues

(from the Chicago Manual of Style) From Rick: This past Saturday I gave a presentation to my local writers group on “Sticky and Tricky Points of Punctuation.” As a result of that presentation, one of the members sent me an

Grammar Punctuation

Are your commas in the right places?

09/14/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 508 Views 0 Comments good writing techniques, proper comma placement, punctuation, rick taubold

From Rick: Most of us recognize that the comma is perhaps the most difficult piece of punctuation to get right because it has so many rules that apply to it. I prefer to call them conventions instead of rules because

Basics of writing Punctuation

How to use dashes properly in fiction

09/30/201910/03/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 370 Views 0 Comments dashes in writing, fiction writing, good writing techniques, proper use of dashes, proper use of dashes in writing, punctuation-dashes, rick taubold

From Rick: I’m in a bit of a time crunch during the month of October with several projects to complete by the end of the month (or before). As a result, I’m going to post every other week in October

Punctuation

Some punctuation tips for writers

03/19/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 424 Views 0 Comments dashes in writing, ellipses in writing, good writing techniques, punctuation, rick taubold, uses of quotation marks

From Rick: While I’m in the process of revising Punctuation For Fiction Writers, I thought I’d do a post on a few tips about using hyphens, dashes, and ellipses. I’ll also discuss the five uses of quotation marks, as inspired

Basics of writing Punctuation

“Half” hyphenation problems

08/14/201707/03/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 1215 Views good writing techniques, hyphenation issues, hyphens with "half", punctuation, rick taubold

From Rick: Out of all the punctuation marks, I find hyphens the biggest pain. “Why hyphens? Why not commas?” you ask. It’s true that people have the most problems with commas because commas have so many different uses. In our

Basics of writing Punctuation

A brief primer on punctuation options

01/12/201501/14/2015 Write Well, Write To Sell 375 Views 0 Comments punctuation, punctuation techniques, rick taubold, selecting from punctuation options

From Rick: The punctuation book that Scott and I are working on has entered its final death throes (meaning pending final test reader acceptance and polishing in prep for the FINAL edit). Before I embark on the two promised series—one

Punctuation

Punctuation: using it wisely

09/01/201409/02/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 430 Views 1 Comment ellipsis, good writing techniques, punctuation, punctuation guidelines, purpose of punctuation, rick taubold

From Rick: Punctuation is a topic of concern for most writers, and I get questions about it all the time from various places. Those who have followed our blog for a while will notice that this is also one topic

Dialogue Formatting Novel writing Punctuation

Writing great dialog–Part 4: proper dialog formatting

05/13/201303/13/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 412 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog basics, dialog tag attributes, dialog tags, good writing techniques, punctuating dialog, punctuation, rick taubold, writing good dialog

From Rick: In this post, I’m going to cover formatting dialog, which some new writers get wrong. For purposes of this blog, I’ll assume the American English style of formatting, that is, double quote marks, where British English may use

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