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  THEY MUST DIE: My Book Chapter That Got A Merit Award & An Invitation To AG National Fine Arts Hello my fellow readers and writers! The Fine Arts festival was quite literally yesterday, so I decided that I would post my chapter so that you guys could read it– I will be posting an updated one with my Nationals results once that takes place. For those of you who don’t know, I submitted a Book Chapter to AG Michigan Fine Arts, titled THEY MUST DIE. Now, Merit Awards go to those who score between 36-40 points, AND were the highest scoring of their category. I got a 38.33 out of 40. National Fine Arts takes place in St. Louis, Missouri sometime during July of this year (I cannot remember the specific date). I also had to submit a summary of my story, so I will be including that as well. (This is a work-in-progress that has gone on the backburner because of Storm of Blood– I would like to continue this project, do you think I should?) The Summary/Blurb Ruth is trying to be a Follo...

  How to Write Good Dialogue That Sounds Real: Part Two Hello and welcome back to my dialogue mini-series! Last time, we covered the “As you know, Bob…” and Name Dropping specifics, and we are still on what type of dialogue that you want to fix/avoid.  We will be going over 2 more types of dialogue to fix, and then after that… we have one more type of bad dialogue, and then after that we will be moving onto how to write good dialogue instead of just stuff to try and avoid. On-the-nose Dialogue(and Drama) This type of dialogue is where the characters are very… obvious, on-the-nose, or just… not realistic in the sense that the characters are being straight forward to a ridiculous degree. By this I mean: If Character A asks Character B why they are made at A, is B really going to say, I’m mad at you because you missed thirteen of my calls after I got into a car crash? No! At least, not realistically. Maybe B shouts something similar, but certain emotions, even when explainin...

  How to Write Good Dialogue That Sounds Real: Part One Hello my fellow writers! If you’re anything like me, then you love it when the book you’re reading has characters that get into a back-and-forth argument with each other, with fun banter and sometimes serious lines. But, how do you write that? And, most importantly, how do you make sure that your dialogue sounds like… actual people? I’ll be going over some stuff to avoid and ways to make your dialogue snappy, dramatic, or whatever it is you’re going for. I will also be providing an example for each thing. Of course, since this is Part One, we will be covering only two things in this part… I will try to keep it to 2-4 parts, but I have no idea how long this subject of dialogue will be… “As you know, Bob…”  This is also known as exposition-heavy dialogue. A character will ask a question about something, and the other character will reply with, “As you know…”  It’s basically a way to throw in some exposi...