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Clinical depression
Stubbing the toe of your brain
You can’t just chill out
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The kids are whining
Uh, Mom! My clothes have soured
Writers capture moods
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I broke a promise
“Authorial intrusion”
Was not my next blog
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Using whom is a pain
Grammatical dissonance
Use it just like him
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“What’s up, doc?” he asked
Do not use dialog tags
“He said” is just fine
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Japanese German
Is a hay fever haiku
Gesundheit, mein Freund
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Is five seven five?
Correct on every last line?
You can be the judge
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The best writing advice I ever got was this: Most people don’t want to write; most people want to have written. Think about that. It’s true.
Until next time …
Pax vobiscum, Keith
(c) 2012 Alan Keith Parker
KeithParker.org 
I like the dialogue tags one – I found that very amusing.
Dialog tags really do need to be bare bones, or so I’ve been told by editors. There’s no need to use anything other than “he said” or “she said”, or in the case of collective consciousnesses, “they said”.
:-)
It’s been a hectic 2-3 weeks. I am not as focused as I’d like to be.
I will return to more substantive advice as soon as I can.
Thanks for reading!
“Ahh substantive advice – that is what I need,” we whimpered.
A new post elaborating on dialog tags coming up in the next 2-3 hours!
BTW, I’m trying to find a WordPress theme that’ll show all the comments. So far, no luck. Comment logs get collapsed. Not sure why.
Thanks for reading and leaving feedback.