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Month: July 2021

What does Kafkaesque mean?

Posted on July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

If you haven’t read The Trial by Kafka, I’ll try not to spoil too much in this article, but I’m going to use it as an example to answer the question, What does Kafkaesque mean? Also, if you haven’t read The Trial, I’ll be glad if this post reminds or encourages you to do so.  Two unidentified agents arrest Josef K….

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How to write realistic dialogue: an introduction.

Posted on July 17, 2021July 17, 2021

There’s a lot of good, easy-to-follow advice on ‘how to write realistic dialogue,’ and I will soon share my ideas on that here, but this first post on the subject will cover when and why I choose to use dialogue. Every writer should have this conversation with themselves before refining the dialogue that’s already on…

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How to write with style – with Kurt Vonnegut.

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

Kurt Vonnegut was a great writer. He was an author with a unique voice, and he once published some of his insight with a short piece that I now want to share, titled How to write with style. He published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five non-fiction books throughout his career. After…

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Active vs Passive Voice: the difference and why it matters.

Posted on July 4, 2021July 4, 2021

Active vs passive voice is all about verbs. A verb can have an active voice or a passive voice, and it’s generally better to choose the active. The active voice makes the subject of a sentence perform the verb’s action. It makes a sentence more direct. It’s strong and more precise. The passive voice means…

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