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Looking at Description: Dorothy Dunnett
Description captures so much nuance, and the structure of the sentence can prove integral to its effect, as frequently happens in Dunnett's writing.A series that I come back to repeatedly is Dorothy...
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More Dunnett, this time a fight scene that’s as carefully choreographed as her prose. Here Lymond and Jerott are fighting, and it’s soon after Jerott’s ideas of Lymond have been reversed. It doesn’t...
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Shaping Stories With Characters: How Characters Affect Your Plot
We’re currently covering characters in the Writing F&SF class, so I thought I’d pull out a little from my notes. Some simplistic stories have characters that seem like placeholders, as though any...
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Guest Post from Anne Leonard: Writing “Strong Female Characters” in a...
In Dorothy Dunnett’s sixth book, Checkmate, we get this passage: She had been led into behaving like a female. And she was being dismissed as a female. But she had charge of his good name, although he...
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