Skip to content
Unknown's avatar

Colin Klawans

Writing Advice from the Paperback Friendly Unit Shifter

  • Home
  • The Author

Tag: Conversation

Solely Spoken

After rereading Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants I noticed a similarity in style to that story and what I’m currently writing. There’s a high bar of quality to match and it has me contemplating the techniques used and how else they can be applied. If you’ve never read the story go straight there. It’s four … Continue reading Solely Spoken →

Colin Klawans Advice, Blog Post, Writing Leave a comment April 30, 2024May 30, 2024 4 Minutes

Motivation for Dialog

A few years ago a fellow writer told me he had difficulty writing dialog saying it was almost foreign compared to narrative prose. I gave myself as an example and advised he try writing pure dialog without any narrative prose only keeping what could be fit inside quotation marks. The suggestion came with the classic … Continue reading Motivation for Dialog →

Colin Klawans Advice, Blog Post, Writing Leave a comment May 31, 2022June 30, 2022 5 Minutes
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Colin Klawans
    • Join 26 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Colin Klawans
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar