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Narrative Voice for Novelists
Introduction
A Great Voice Makes a Great First Impression (4:36)
Foundations
Grievous Grammar, Pesky Punctuation, and Irksome Adverbials of Time
Punctuation Quiz
Point of View ~ Defining POV types (1:51)
Point of View ~ Past or Present Tense? (2:06)
POV Quiz
POV ~ Limited and Omniscient
Point of View ~ How to decide which one to use (9:33)
Narrator QUIZ
New Speaker, New Paragraph (1:16)
Tags and Beats (2:36)
Dialogue Punctuation (1:19)
"That tag doesn't work well," she insisted. (2:38)
"That tag is brilliant," she said, brightly. (2:13)
The Great Invisible Dialogue Tag (3:23)
Furnishings
As You Know (1:12)
Umms (1:21)
Slang (1:15)
Little Sir Echo (1:57)
Contractions (1:14)
Incomplete Sentences (0:56)
Dialogue Assignment
Dialogue Quiz
Nouns, Verbs, and Adverbs, Oh my! (9:50)
Specific Words Assignment
Compound Adjectives and Adverbs (3:23)
Compound Adjective, Compound Nouns, and Verb-alized Nouns
Internal Monologue
Mood and Tone (9:42)
How Words Make Us Feel
Figures of Speech Download
A Short List of Cliches
Finishing Touches ~ Self Editing
For Discussion ~ Figures of Speech
Repeated Words (4:25)
Redundant Thoughts and Actions (1:59)
Sensory Words (4:21)
Pacing With Sentence and Paragraph Variation (4:48)
Ing/As Construction (3:24)
Was That Passive
There Once Was a Lecture (2:41)
Micromanaging the Reader
Editing Quiz
Professional Remodeling ~ Critiques
Instructions For Emailing Chapters
Dialogue Quiz
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