After working on a particularly difficult part of the novel I’m working on today, I uncovered a tip for writing dialogue, much better dialogue.
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Tag: Writing Fiction
Mothers in fiction
In the wake of US Supreme Court Justice Alito’s leaked drafted opinion regarding Roe v. Wade and Mother’s Day, which was yesterday, I am wondering: Does fiction about mothers and motherhood reveal more about our society and how it treats women than we readily acknowledge? Mothers in fiction are typically distraught, depressed, scared, prone to run away, etc.
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Disinformation: Who’s liable?
I’m interested in incorporating the mechanisms and ramifications of disinformation into the current novel I’m working on. But as I work on fleshing out plotlines and characters and text one question, in particular, keeps nagging at me: who’s liable for disinformation and its effects?
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