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Turkey City Lexicon
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Turkey City Lexicon. Blog Hop – The Next Big Thing. Giving and Receiving…Critiques →. In any specific human endeavor involving more than one person, the people involved soon find themselves repeating the same phrases over and over. It’s inevitable they should seek some shorthand way to avoid that. So they develop jargon, specialized terminology suited to their activity. But that gets right to the value of this list. Most of the te...
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Tag Archives: Infodump
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: Infodump. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. An Infodump is one of the Turkey City Lexicon. From a writer’s perspe...
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Category Archives: Writing Rules
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Writing Rules. Category Archives: Writing Rules. What Do Editors Want, Anyway? Most beginning writers, especially those who’ve suffered a few rejections, wonder about the answer to this post’s subject question. What do editors want? I can’t pretend to speak for all editors. I’ve not reached the point where all my stories get accepted. I’ve never worked as an editor myself. However, a few years ago, one editor *.
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Category Archives: Pacing
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Pacing. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. An Infodump is one of the Turkey City Lexicon. From a writer’s per...
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Category Archives: Narration
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Narration. Next in this series of blog posts is a strange one:. I’m blogging about how each of the seven principles in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. By Michael J. Gelb, relates to fiction writing. Today I grapple with the fourth principle,. A word that means going up in smoke. Important for a fiction writer? First, let’s define each of its three aspects:. Writers make use of ambiguity through symbolism. Uncert...
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Tag Archives: Herman Melville
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: Herman Melville. Tag Archives: Herman Melville. Together, you and I have arrived at the end of this seven-part series of posts. We’ve been working our way through the principles in Michael J. Gelb’s wonderful book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. For each principle, we’ve been exploring how it relates to fiction writing. The last principle is. In what ways should a writer of fiction embrace the principle of. Are conne...
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Target Practice
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Protected: Target Practice. This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:. In the Hides the Dark Tower. In the Avast, Ye Airships. To Be First" and "Wheels of Heaven". Rallying Cry" with "Last Vessel of Atlantis. A Tale More True. The Six Hundred Dollar Man. Bringing the Future to You. In the Cheer Up, Universe. In The New Fairy Tales Anthology. In the Aurora of the Sun. In Steampunk Tales Issue #5.
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Category Archives: Readers
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Readers. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but some of your potential readers will, and you don’t want them wincing at the sight of your book. Today we’ll be judging covers, or at least reviewing what makes a good one. After you read this post, please check out Derek Murphy’s take on cover design here. Where do you get cover art? Here are some sources:. Offer thousands of images at reasonable prices.
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Tag Archives: science fiction
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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: science fiction. Tag Archives: science fiction. Book Launch After the Martians. Your wait is over! My book After the Martians is now available. No more gritting your teeth, drumming your fingers, or watching the clock tick the hours away. Even as you read this, you could be surfing over to Amazon. And purchasing your own copy. Not a bad idea. Stop reading this blog right now and buy the book. Not yet sure you want to buy?
