character voice Archives - Sacha Black

201 How to Master Your Dialogue with Jeff Elkins

Sacha Black — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 05:00:46 +0000

Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 201 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Jeff Elkins all about mastering your dialogue.

In this episode we cover:

The difference between dialogue and exposition
Making dialogue shine in the four parts of a scene
Developing character voice
Letting emotion influence dialogue
The four types of characters

This week’s question is: recommend me a podcast

Recommendation of the week is: Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot

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Katlyn’s Course: From Chaos to Control

Find out more about Jeff:

The Dialogue Doctor

Rebel of the Week is: Omar

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124 How to Craft Your Writing Voice with September C Fawkes

Sacha Black — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 08:00:52 +0000

Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 124 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to September C Fawkes all about how to craft your writing voice.

In this episode we cover:

What is voice?
How to create distinctive voice
How does a character’s background influence voice
Mistakes to avoid with voice
Tools for differentiating dialogue

This week’s question is: How do you, or what books have gotten you out of a reading slump?

Recommendation of the week is:

My Audiobook 13 Steps to Evil is on sale for the whole of February.

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Find out more about September at:

Rebel of the Week is: Kathryn Fletcher

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com

1 new patron this week, a big welcome and thank you to Maryn Corkran. A big thank you to my existing patrons as well. If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack

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