Robb Grindstaff
Sarah Mae's Holiday
Sarah Mae Scanlon wasn’t a particularly religious person, never attended church services, but she loved the holidays. She loved all the...
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Robb Grindstaff
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
Sighs don't matter
"When you’re writing fiction, how often do your characters sigh? That's too often." What is a sigh? It’s a deep, slow breath that is...
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Robb Grindstaff
- May 1, 2021
- 2 min
A little chat-chit about the Bad Big Wolf
Clocks go tick-tock. Horses go clip-clop. Doorbells go ding-dong. Why don’t they go tock-tick, clop-clip, and dong-ding? And why is the...
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Robb Grindstaff
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Writing in 3-D, Part III: Despair
3-D writing is the art of surrounding readers with your story, pulling them in and making them a part of it rather than just a reader....
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Robb Grindstaff
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Writing in 3-D, Part II: Description
3-D writing is the art of surrounding readers with your story, pulling them in and making them a part of it rather than just a reader....
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Robb Grindstaff
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Writing in 3-D, Part I: Dialogue
A few years back, my wife and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3-D. I hadn’t seen a 3-D movie since I was a kid in some distant century....
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