How to become a better writer

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We have conversations of all sorts every day, and yet including them in our writing can be challenging. What’s interesting to the reader? What is too boring or too confusing? One of the key parts of writing when characters are talking is dialogue tags, and they can make or break your conversation. So what are dialogue tags? They’re pretty simple: it’s what tells you who is talking. They’re the ‘he said’ or ‘she whispered’ or ‘Jill yelled’ after a direct quotation in writing. They can also be…

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In my MFA program, we were required to read 80 books over the two-year course of study. Like most writers, I was already a voracious reader, but time constraints and job demands had meant that I read far fewer than 40 books a year. In reading such a large volume of books, though, I came to embrace some tenets of story consumption: