Action Beats in Fiction A Guest Post by Ruth Wong In fiction, using dialogue tags alone without action beats may cause certain issues. The...

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Talkshow Thursday:  Welcome Back, Sandra Ardoin! I'm pleased to have Sandra back to my blog. She writes fantastic stories and has a ne...

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