Episode 6: The Meeting
In this episode, we look at a short description of a church meeting and discuss some techniques for presenting experience to readers in ways that conform more closely to the ways experience come to us in the real world.
In this episode, we look at a short description of a church meeting and discuss some techniques for presenting experience to readers in ways that conform more closely to the ways experience come to us in the real world.
In this episode of Line Edits, we discuss some of the ways we make connections between parts of sentences: keeping pronoun-antecedent relationships clear, keeping subjects close to verbs, and aligning subjects and verbs with actors and actions.
In this episode of Line Edits, we look at a story about a canoe trip and talk about nominative absolutes and the habit of giving important ideas their own clauses.
In this episode of Line Edits, we discuss the importance of appealing to as many of the five senses as possible, as well as incorporating motion and contrast. We also consider the difference between grammar that is correct and grammar that is invisible to the reader.
In Episode 2 of Line Edits, we discuss opening lines, the perils of asking the reader to figure things out, and the curse of knowledge.
In this episode of Line Edits, we take a close look at a story about roadside assistance and consider some basics of dialogue and the idea of presenting experience to your readers in a way that corresponds to the way they would receive that experience in real life.