Screamin' seafaring tale wins bad writing contestThe contest, a parody of prose, invites entrants to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
Constructing effective interview scenes, part V: Hollywood Narration, poor public communication, and what?s the difference between a narrative voice and a voice-over, anyway?
July 4, 2009, 7:47 am | Author! Author!
Aspiring writer on the job, making the world safe from Hollywood Narration You know how I keep saying that real life perpetually volunteers examples at just the point I could really, really use them on the blog? Well, it?s happened again: I was actually writing yesterday?s post on Hollywood Narration and how annoying a poor interviewer character can be, when the phone rang: it was a pre-recorded, computerized political opinion poll. Now, I don?t find polls much fun to take, but since I u