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Pacing — What It Is and How to Manage It
ByDebra 21 February, 202221 February, 2022
“Pace yourself.” In my running days in the Marine Corps, I heard this imperative regularly. Perhaps you’ve heard it too. It means managing how quickly or slowly you run your distance. If you plan to run a mile, you don’t run the whole distance at a sprint like you would the 100-yard dash. You can…
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Those Pesky Dialogue Tags
ByDebra 28 July, 2015
Oh those pesky dialogue tags. Said. Asked. Replied. Responded. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there on what to use. What’s a writer to do? In the multitude of manuscripts I read, I see writers employ such things as “Sally smiled” or “Gerald laughed.” In and of itself, there is nothing wrong with that….
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