by William Womack, May 20th, 2008
There’s a contest a-brewin’ over at Nathan Brandsford’s blog. He’s challenged his readers to submit a snippet of dialog writing. Entries must be no longer than 250 words, and it’s up to the writer how many of those words are dialog (hint: better be a bunch of ‘em). Nathan’s blog never wants for comments, but […]
Tags: blog, dialog, Nathan Brandsford, writing samples
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by William Womack, May 12th, 2008
I’m a geek. Let’s just get that out of the way before going any further. One of my wonky pleasures of late has been cruising around the Web using StumbleUpon, a sort of remote control for channel-surfing the ‘net. In a bout of weekend stumbling, I came across several websites that might be of use […]
Tags: Character names, character sketches, geography, locations, Web tools for writers
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by William Womack, May 8th, 2008
Mea culpa. On Monday I proudly announced that Tuesdays would be book review days here at WfW, and then promptly let the day sing by with no postings. I feel bad about it… how about a little make-up sex?
Tags: Books on Writing, Elizabeth Benedict, Sex, The Joy of Writing Sex
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by William Womack, May 5th, 2008
My apologies to both of you who stumbled into this blog last week looking for something new, only to see the same old tired posts. Why so quiet around here lately? Could be that the weather has finally broken from the Arctic blasts that plagued the early spring in Portland. There’s waist-high grass to be […]
Tags: excuses, future blog plans, Monday morning, Odds and Ends
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