Word Choice, Diction, and Syntax | Writing Tips
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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tell-you-this/
☾Solarium - Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-bishop
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/prism-58-3-sprawl-is-live/
☾Wishbone - video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-and-jane-in-the-garden-of-eden/
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: https://tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-till-i-see-the-light/
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: https://roommagazine.com/issues/twine
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:38 - Character voice
6:00 - Linguistic ecosystems
8:37 - Defamiliarizing verbs
12:05 - Specifying nouns
15:31 - Prioritizing sound
18:15 - Condensing constructions
21:14 - Word weight
24:05 - Abstract vs. concrete language
25:41 - Using resources
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