If you ask any rom-com reader what they expect from the genre, I believe witty banter will make the top five. You know, the kind of quick and clever, rapid-fire dialogue that often ignites sparks of curiosity and amps up the connection between the love interests. ( Using Internal Dialogue to Reveal Character .) That’s […]
Trips to coffee shops to review the day’s notes were part of columnist Liane Faulder’s routine when she attended a writing workshop at a small American university. Article content A friend told me she had purchased a tap dancing board for her home. She had danced as a kid, and now that she was reducing […]
It begins with not one, not two, but three prologues, each spiked with a different kind of horror. First, a scrolling text suggesting that this all really happened to the “five youths” we are about to meet, even though it didn’t. Second, glimpses of cadavers in oily Caravaggio light, culminating in a long, sociopathically calm […]
