Tag: Narration
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My Writing Life: 3
When I first decided to try writing full-time, I attended many writers conferences so that I could learn about the writing business and various publishers. One piece of advice every established writer gave — advice that is still given today — was this: Don’t quit your day job. This is good advice for the simple…
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Narration: Overarching Words
Narration is, for many readers, one of a book’s most appealing features, perhaps second only to story. Narration is all the writing that is not dialogue. Dialogue consists of directly spoken words, words with quotation marks around them — everything else is narration. Narration shouldn’t be confused with the Narrator, which is the consciousness that…