Tag Archives: prose

Multiple POVs: Balance, Pacing, and Voice

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Caitlyn McFarland

It’s time for my yearly post where I give people who attended my Storymakers class some resources! The following is pretty much the entire class I taught on how to write from multiple perspectives. Class description: Many stories require multiple … Continue reading →

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Four Quick and Dirty Rules for Cleaner Prose

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Caitlyn McFarland

Here are some of the ways I’ve cleaned up my prose in the past year. 1) Trash all unnecessary dialogue tags. When we first start out, a lot of our dialogue passages look like this: “What are you doing?” she … Continue reading →

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