show don’t tell – Write Well, Write To Sell

A balancing act: keeping the reader informed and interested-Part 2

09/23/201911/11/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 466 Views 1 Comment good writing techniques, holding reader interest, rick taubold, show don't tell, story openings

From Rick: I’m going to do something a little different this time to demonstrate how one balances two important aspects of a story: informing the reader and maintaining reader interest. I did a previous post on this, but here I’m

Basics of writing

Perspectives on creative writing and storytelling

10/03/201601/21/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 386 Views 0 Comments creative writing, fiction writing, how to write a story, rick taubold, show don't tell, story openings, story vs. anecdote, storytelling basics

From Rick: What is creative writing? According to one Wikipedia article: “Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character

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Common writing mistakes—PART 4

05/02/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 402 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, good writing techniques, novel writing, overwriting, rick taubold, show don't tell, underwriting

From Rick: Last time, I talked about overwriting, and I gave you one modest example of it. In its mildest form, overwriting leads to over-explaining and to telling where you should be showing. At its worst, it results in manuscripts

Dialogue

Writing great dialog–Part 6: dialog tag abuse

12/08/201412/09/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 448 Views 0 Comments dialog basics, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: I know, I know. I’m doing dialog posts with astonishing slowness even for me, but I’ll get to the end of them one of these weeks… or months… or years. This particular post in the series began with

Openings

A checklist for story openings

10/13/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 412 Views 1 Comment fiction writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, story details, story openings

From Rick: A couple of years back, Scott and I did a five-part series on Openings. If you want to read (or re-read) those, the OPENINGS category on the left side of the blog page will let you find them

Action scenes Guest posts Novel writing

How to write action scenes

09/02/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 481 Views 1 Comment action scenes, Chrys Fey, good writing techniques, novel writing, show don't tell, writing action scenes

guest post by Chrys Fey Writer Chrys Fey recently volunteered to share a post from her own blog with Silver Pen. After reading it, Scott and I agreed that it would also make a great guest post for Write Well.

Bad writing habits Editing

Rules, rules, rules–I’m so sick of rules!

06/10/201306/13/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 366 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, error correction, good writing techniques, rick taubold, show don't tell

From Rick: On blog after blog about writing, writers are inundated with rules. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much the so-called rules of good writing really matter. Thinking about that triggered another random thought. In the Broadway show, and

Dialogue Editing

Writing great dialog–Part 3: tags & attributes

04/29/201301/05/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 410 Views 0 Comments dialog tag attributes, dialog tags, editing tips, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, show don't tell, speech tags

From Rick: In Part 2 of this series I said I was going to cover slang and dialect this time. Well, I decided to move that to a later post, primarily because I want to do more research on that.

Basics of writing Dialogue

Writing great dialog–Part 2

04/15/201309/24/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 411 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: In this part, I’m going discuss defining character with dialog. Many new authors don’t grasp this starting out, and they end up having all their characters talk alike. We’ve all read novels where it was difficult to keep

Basics of writing Dialogue Novel writing

Writing great dialog–Part 1

04/08/201311/11/2015 Write Well, Write To Sell 404 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: As I mentioned in last week’s brief post, Scott and I lately have been quite busy. So, for a while, we’re going to reduce the length of our blog posts, dividing them into multiple posts when necessary, to

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