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We read fiction because we seek an emotional experience. A novel or short story conveys emotion in three ways: through description, dialogue, and voice. The last is the hardest to understand, but writers who evoke emotion through voice often create an addicting reading experience. It is essential to learn to write with voice, because when…
The boy grabbed onto an old cedar, and as he pulled onto a branch, shedding leaves whirled around him. “You damn fish! We’re gonna bleed you!” His three pursuers were yards away. “And paint this forest with your blood!” The branches of the tree stretched to the sky. The boy climbed, panting. “Your kind ain’t…
This post contains spoilers for the movie Inception! Inception is a deeply flawed movie. It has an overly convoluted and bloated beginning sequence that throws you into the action without telling you anything about the characters or the scenario. It has a middle that’s so complicated you need a flowchart to make any sense of…
The last time he saw Eli, her ribs stuck out like planks in her tiny body. And she wouldn’t stop coughing–that broken violin cough–and she’d sit on the kitchen floor with its crumbless cupboards and lick her fingers as if they were cinnamon. So Remy left his bank card on the table and grabbed dad’s…