Oasis: Chapter 9 (incomplete)
Here’s the first part of chapter 9 “The Last Argument With Andy”
The infected Carlton clamped his arms around Frankie in a gruesome bear hug and sunk his teeth into Frankie’s shoulder. Read the rest of this entry »
Oasis: Chapter 8
“A Neighbor Infected”
Andy pointed a finger at one of the guys. “Zeke, come with us. I want the rest of you guys to come up with some ideas for a game plan for tonight.”
Zeke stood up and all of the guys nodded.
I really wished they would stop doing that. Read the rest of this entry »
Writing Dialogue – Part 2
Here’s the second part of Dialog and the Art of War by Randy Ingermanson. If you like what he’s said, you should check out his other writing materials.
Dialogue and the Art of War–Part 2
Dialogue, as I said last month, is war. It’s not fought
with guns and tanks. It’s fought with words. But it’s
all about the same thing. Conflict. If you don’t have Read the rest of this entry »
Oasis: Chapter 8 (partial)
Andy pointed a finger at one of the guys. “Zeke, come with us. I want the rest of you guys to come up with some ideas for a game plan for tonight.”
Zeke stood up and all of the guys nodded.
I really wished they would stop doing that.
Andy lumbered to the door to the stairs. He glanced back. “You coming, Core?”
I got in line behind Zeke and followed them up the stairs and into Andy’s apartment on the second floor. What I saw inside surprised me. Read the rest of this entry »
Writing Dialogue
I read Randy Ingermanson’s monthly ezine almost religiously. He’s recently printed a fantastic series of articles on writing dialogue, which I’m going to reprint here in the hopes that it will find and help even more writers. This is stuff I’m working hard to use in my writing, and I believe it makes for much more readable fiction.
If you like this, then you should check out his other writing materials.
Here’s Part I
Dialogue and the Art of War
If you write fiction, then you have probably gone
through a stage where you Read the rest of this entry »
