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Three Dirty Birds Talk Exposition

The Dirty Birds are chirping about James Scott Bell and Exposition. Kate: I thought it was ironic that the chapter on exposition was one of the shortest in the book. 🙂 Zoe: It really was very short. Does he not know we need to fill up a discussion here? Ana: It’s like he doesn’t...

Three Dirty Birds Talk Show vs Tell

It’s a New Year, but the same old young Dirty Birds! We’re back with chapter 8 of James Scott Bell’s Revision and Self-Editing for Publication–Show vs. Tell. Ana: I can never get enough of this topic. /sarcasm Zoe: It was fairly palatable in this presentation. It’s been worse! Ana: It’s probably not him, it’s...

New Year's and New Beginnings Blog Hop

The House of Manlove have been talking about all the things we want to do the same, and the things we want to do differently this coming year. 2014 has been very good to us–many of our members were published for the first time, and we’ve developed a fantastic network of authors to go...

Three Dirty Birds Talk About Scenes

WE’RE BACK!!!! At least until Christmas derails us. Then we lose Zoe-bird for a couple of weeks, but we’ll be back in the New Year to finish off James Scott Bell and squabble about what book we’ll read next. Any suggestions? We’d like something a little more focused, something that will help us with...

Three Dirty Birds on Character

Three Dirty Birds are talking Character today with James Scott Bell’s Revision and Self-Editing for Publication (2e). Kate: So much wonderful in this chapter, it’s definitely not a skimmer. There’s stuff in this chapter that I’m definitely going to apply (if the day job ever calms down enough to let me write again). Ana:...