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I’m home from another wonderful Florida Writers Conference, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you! Conferences are always a whirlwind of presentations, conversations, new ideas, familiar faces, and far too little sleep, but one of my favorite parts is getting the chance to talk about writing with other writers. Thank you to everyone who attended my presentations, asked a question, stopped to chat, or shared something about your own writing journey with me. This year,

Real people are terrible at dialogue. We pause, repeat ourselves, say "um" as we struggle to find the next words, forget what we were saying, and tell stories that could be way shorter. That works in conversation--not so much in dialogue. On the page? Your reader is waiting for you to get to the point. Good dialogue should sound like real conversation without actually being real conversation. That doesn’t mean every character needs to speak in perfectly polished sentences. Ra

More blogs posted elsewhere, but this is a fun series! From the Editor’s Desk – Revision and Editing Part One: Revision (or making sure...

For now, you can review some things I've posted elsewhere! From the Editor's Desk: The Oxford Comma From the Editor’s Desk: How to stop...