: Re: How to convey (screaming) hysterics in dialogue It happens to most if not all of us. Something extremely emotional happens to us and we're just hysterical. Logic doesn't work. You contemplate

What you people are proposing doesn't work. For example, if my character is hysterical cos his wife been cheating on him and he goes off on a tirade and then exclaims: "...with the cook! THE COOK!!!" None of your convoluted words will convey his emotion as dynamically as the classic shouting CAPS. "THE COOK!" I tell ya.

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: Two suggestions: 1) Flag your intention as early as possible. Open your novel with a line like, "Some mysteries aren't meant be solved." 2) Be vague about the clues: what matters is how

: Re: How to convey (screaming) hysterics in dialogue It happens to most if not all of us. Something extremely emotional happens to us and we're just hysterical. Logic doesn't work. You contemplate

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: In fiction writing, how can one make the passage of time seem shorter? More accurately, how can one write a story that spans across a good deal of time, but is not so much lengthy in its

: Resources with Examples of Short Stories to Teach Dialogue I'm teaching creative writing workshops, in which we read short stories with examples of literary elements to better understand how to

: Publishing fiction: when do I start looking for an agent? I am just about finished with the first draft of a novel I've been working on. I've been writing novels for about ten years and I've

: Two suggestions: 1) Flag your intention as early as possible. Open your novel with a line like, "Some mysteries aren't meant be solved." 2) Be vague about the clues: what matters is how

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