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Orca Blog for February 2022 – Connect Description to Character with Telling Details

This month’s blog appears on Jane Friedman’s website: https://www.janefriedman.com/use-telling-details-to-connect-description-to-character/

Use Telling Details to Connect Description to Character

This entry was posted in Orca Blog and tagged Craft of Fiction, description, James Wood on February 2, 2022 by Joe Ponepinto.

Just Released: Reader Centered Writing

Orca senior editor Joe Ponepinto has been writing and editing creative work for most of his adult life. His new book, Reader Centered Writing, is a collection of the best of these essays on basic writing conventions, advanced techniques, and musings on the writing life in a section called Adventures in the Slushpile. There are also several new essays included. Order a print or Kindle version on Amazon, or a PDF on our 55 Fathoms website.

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