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  1. Tracy Koppel

    Craft Make Your Descriptions of Setting Do Double or Triple Duty with Tracy Forgie Koppel

    Make your descriptions of setting do double or even triple duty by having them not only let your reader know where your characters are, but also share your POV character's emotion and also not slow down the scene—unless slowing down the scene is exactly what is right for that moment in your...
  2. Tracy Koppel

    Watercooler First Person... with Omniscient? Yay or Nay?

    Sounds like a great solution!
  3. Tracy Koppel

    Watercooler Telling not Showing? In time-travel novel.

    Why wouldn’t it be in the book description? It seems like key marketing information so that you attract readers who love that stuff and don’t end up with one- and two-star reviews from people who hate time travel books.
  4. Tracy Koppel

    Watercooler Telling not Showing? In time-travel novel.

    Wouldn't the time travel be in the book description? I'm guessing most readers will know before they read the first page that it's a time travel book.
  5. Tracy Koppel

    Watercooler First Person... with Omniscient? Yay or Nay?

    It's a question for your beta readers.
  6. Tracy Koppel

    At this point in my writing career, I don't think I'd participate in it. Earlier in my career...

    At this point in my writing career, I don't think I'd participate in it. Earlier in my career, I might very well have participated. This summer I'm going to be obligated to be doing a lot of editing of other people's short stories while also trying to finish the revisions of my WIP. For me...