https://lilalabine.com/ Fiction Manuscript & Screenplay Editing Services Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://lilalabine.com/point-of-view/#comment-22 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:52:24 +0000 https://lilalabine.com/?p=4126#comment-22 […] dig deeper into POV rules in this post. Joe Bunting’s fantastically helpful blog post “Point of View in 2022” is a good read as […]

]]> https://lilalabine.com/point-of-view/#comment-21 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:47:14 +0000 https://lilalabine.com/?p=4126#comment-21 […] words and phrases. Filter words and phrases put space between your readers and whatever your point-of-view character is experiencing. If you are writing in the first-person point of view or in the close […]

]]> https://lilalabine.com/point-of-view/#comment-20 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:44:22 +0000 https://lilalabine.com/?p=4126#comment-20 […] If you’re writing in first-person POV or close third-person POV, you’ll want to choose verbs that your point-of-view character would use. […]

]]> https://lilalabine.com/action-beats/#comment-7 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:11:42 +0000 https://lilalabine.com/?p=2405#comment-7 […] Action beats. Find your frequently used action beats. Is she smiled on every page of your manuscript? You’ll want to delete or replace those. What about he shifted in his seat? A slightly unusual or specific action beat shouldn’t be used more than a few times in your whole manuscript. […]

]]> https://lilalabine.com/dialogue-tags/#comment-5 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:19:56 +0000 https://lilalabine.com/?p=2335#comment-5 […] dialogue tags, action beats are easy to punctuate. See how each of my action beats in the above conversation […]

]]>