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Turkey City Lexicon

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Turkey City Lexicon. Blog Hop – The Next Big Thing. Giving and Receiving…Critiques →. In any specific human endeavor involving more than one person, the people involved soon find themselves repeating the same phrases over and over. It’s inevitable they should seek some shorthand way to avoid that. So they develop jargon, specialized terminology suited to their activity. But that gets right to the value of this list. Most of the te...

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Tag Archives: Infodump

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: Infodump. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. An Infodump is one of the Turkey City Lexicon. From a writer’s perspe...

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Category Archives: Narration

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Narration. Next in this series of blog posts is a strange one:. I’m blogging about how each of the seven principles in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. By Michael J. Gelb, relates to fiction writing. Today I grapple with the fourth principle,. A word that means going up in smoke. Important for a fiction writer? First, let’s define each of its three aspects:. Writers make use of ambiguity through symbolism. Uncert...

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Tag Archives: Herman Melville

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: Herman Melville. Tag Archives: Herman Melville. Together, you and I have arrived at the end of this seven-part series of posts. We’ve been working our way through the principles in Michael J. Gelb’s wonderful book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. For each principle, we’ve been exploring how it relates to fiction writing. The last principle is. In what ways should a writer of fiction embrace the principle of. Are conne...

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Target Practice

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Protected: Target Practice. This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:. In the Hides the Dark Tower. In the Avast, Ye Airships. To Be First" and "Wheels of Heaven". Rallying Cry" with "Last Vessel of Atlantis. A Tale More True. The Six Hundred Dollar Man. Bringing the Future to You. In the Cheer Up, Universe. In The New Fairy Tales Anthology. In the Aurora of the Sun. In Steampunk Tales Issue #5.

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As You Know, Bob…

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; As You Know, Bob…. Prose’s Teacher, Poetry. Your Writer Infestation →. As You Know, Bob…. Perhaps your name isn’t Bob, but this post could still be for you, if you’re a beginning fiction writer. One of the difficult parts of writing is creating believable dialogue, and one of the easy traps to fall into is called As You Know, Bob, or AYKB. Already in the story’s world. And already know about it. Advertisers have a limited time to conv...

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Tag Archives: action

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: action. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. An Infodump is one of the Turkey City Lexicon. From a writer’s perspect...

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Tag Archives: As You Know Bob

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Tag Archive: As You Know Bob. Tag Archives: As You Know Bob. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. From a writer’s perspective, it...

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Dumped in the Middle of the Road

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Dumped in the Middle of the Road. Read Your Story Aloud 10 Reasons Why. Writing Blurbs →. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump.

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Category Archives: Pacing

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The strange and wonderful website of author Steven R. Southard. Raquo; Category Archive: Pacing. Dumped in the Middle of the Road. You’re reading along down the story highway, racing through action scenes, taking the dialogue curves at a good clip, the wind of the story’s world in your hair. All of a sudden, a truck up ahead upends its load and a pile of text pours onto the pavement, right in your path. You’ve been stalled by an infodump. An Infodump is one of the Turkey City Lexicon. From a writer’s per...