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Posts by Becca Puglisi

Dialogue—good dialogue—is tricky. Mechanics can be learned; the rules are readily available and are hammered into us by teachers, editors, critique partners, and countless Facebook memes. The hard part of…

Fear Thesaurus Entry: A Secret Being Revealed

May 21, 2022

Fear Thesaurus Entry: A Secret Being Revealed

May 21, 2022

Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Change

May 14, 2022

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Change

May 14, 2022

Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental health…

Phenomenal First Pages Contest

May 5, 2022

Phenomenal First Pages Contest

May 5, 2022

Hey, wonderful writerly people! It’s time for our monthly first-page critique contest ? This contest is closed. Please try again next month. If you’d like to be notified when the…

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Agoraphobia

April 30, 2022

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Agoraphobia

April 30, 2022

Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental illness,…

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Abandonment

April 16, 2022

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Abandonment

April 16, 2022

Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental illness,…

Phenomenal First Pages Contest

April 5, 2022

Phenomenal First Pages Contest

April 5, 2022

Hey, wonderful writerly people! It’s time for our monthly first-page critique contest ? This contest is closed. Please try again next month. If you’d like to be notified when the…

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Growing Old

April 3, 2022

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Growing Old

April 3, 2022

Debilitating fears are a problem for everyone, an unfortunate part of the human experience. Whether they’re a result of learned behavior as a child, are related to a mental illness,…

Using Vocal Cues to Show Hidden Emotion

March 31, 2022

Using Vocal Cues to Show Hidden Emotion

March 31, 2022

“My Precious” By Becca Puglisi Any Tolkien fans in the house? I remember, as a teen, reading The Hobbit by the fire on a rare cold evening in Florida. It became a…

9 Tension-Building Elements For Character Dialogue

March 24, 2022

9 Tension-Building Elements For Character Dialogue

March 24, 2022

By Becca Puglisi I’ve been thinking a lot about dialogue lately, because when it’s done poorly, it pulls me right out of the story. There are a lot of issues…