Category: Guide
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Tell Me How You Like It: A Beginner’s Guide to Talking Dirty
Delving into dirty talk and direct communication in the bedroom. How do I dirty talk effectively in the bedroom? How do I start talking when my natural inclination is to remain quiet? What do I say? How do I get over the embarassment? I’m going to be going through a lot of foundational questions and things…
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Who said that?: A Dialogue Guide
Crafting unique, distinctive voices for each and every character. Writing individual character voices is one of those skills where the best way to learn is by listening, but the problem with advice that amounts to “Just listen!” is knowing precisely what you’re listening for. Dialogue in fiction, regardless of the medium, can be difficult in…
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Writing Dialogue
A technical primer denoting some rules and conventions. For many of us, we internalise the rules of writing by reading — by sheer osmosis, we take them in, and we replicate them in our own work, often without even realising. When it comes to technical rules, though, it can be difficult to grasp them intuitively because they’re…
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A Beginner’s Approach to Natural History
A bee collecting pollen from an osteospermum. Makrygialos, Crete. © Johannes Evans 2019 One of the exciting things about becoming an amateur naturalist — a student of natural history, and a keen observer of animal and plant life around oneself — is that the world suddenly seems to become much larger. When you go for a walk, not knowing their…