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The Vignette

Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2020 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

The dictionary says a vignette is “a brief evocative description, account, or episode,” or “a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.” The first definition is the one that concerns us here. Vignettes…

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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques

A Word About Scenes

Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2020 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

The dictionary defines a scene as a place where an incident occurs, or a sequence of continuous action in a play movie opera or book. I would go farther and say a scene is the basic building block of a…

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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques

The Benefits of Research

Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2018 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Nobody likes to look stupid. An author that doesn’t do their research properly can look stupid as well as lose readers. That’s never good. Research can make your writing much more real. To write about a particular place, if it’s…

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Scenes

Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2017 by pebblepup — Leave a comment

Scenes are the building blocks of stories. They have structure of their own. They have beginnings, middles, and ends. Except for the first scene in a story, the beginning of a scene should hook the reader, just like the beginning…

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Posted in Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques