Ep. 264: Amber McBride on How to Write a Novel in Verse
Ink in Your Veins
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Slash Felt F L T, as In, I Feel Silly, Am
rachel harendo: My crutch words are felt and realized, especially in the old days. I don't write felt or realized for the most part. And i just recorded four minutes of me doing a lightning round through an old manuscript when i still used words like felt and real ized. Ah, what what felt does and what realized does is it gives a layer of distance from the character. When you move those words, you make the sentences they are in less passive and more active and more voicy.
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