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Using Description to Reveal Character
Good storytellers don’t just tell you who their characters are, they reveal their characters through careful and precise description. To tell a story with style and well-developed characters, keep this advice in your storyteller’s toolbox. Using Description to Reveal Character in Fiction Writing Using description to reveal character in fiction writing is an essential technique…
Introducing Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
About Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-2013 Poet Laureate of Kansas, a long-time transformative language artist, and the author or editor of 24 books, including poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction, and anthologies. As a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator, she explores and celebrates how the spoken, written and sung word can…
“Trapped Between an Animal and a God”: Writing Human Nature’s Contrasts
Cloud and Lizard My dad once said, offhandedly, that to be human is to be “trapped between an animal and a god.” That stuck with me, and more so over time, to the point now that if I was good at drawing, I would post online a diagram of an enormous roiling cloud of royal…