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Sometimes you mean what you say. Sometimes you don’t. Jon and Juliet discuss messages and metamessages and some of the ideas from Deborah Tannen’s That’s Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships. (Amazon link) They recite a few lines from Jules F…

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Juliet and Jon talk about some recent research into Gender Verbs. What they are. What they aren’t. How to have some fun with them. From the Variance Explained blog, David Robinson examined Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories. We riffed on the following graph from David’s blog: …

Juliet and Jon fire up the time machine, (or is it the nostalgia machine?) and each read from one of their favorite books from their childhood. Our selections couldn’t have been more different. For Juliet, it’s from ‘Old Man Kangaroo’ from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling…

Loglines are usually associated with TV and movies but as an ever-resourceful writer, but they can be quite useful for novelists. Juliet and Jon define, dissect, and discuss loglines. Jon shares one that he’s working on and with for a current writing project. David Macinnis Gill is an assoc…

Naming characters. Should be easy. Bob. Alice. Ted. And Alice. Done. Jon and Juliet discuss naming characters. Dos. Do nots. And they consider an interesting post by J Warren Piece, who covers such naming topics as: A) Alliteration B) The Plain w/the Bold C) Syllabic Echo D) Rolling off the To…

A warning: We say several profane words. Including tabernacle! Jon and Juliet talk about Benjamin K. Bergen’s book What the F? What Swearing Reveals about Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves. In our Profanity or Amateurfanity? show we talked about some concepts from Mr. Bergen’s bo…

She got off the phone with just a single goodbye. The security guard put up a hell of a fight. After being knocked out cold in each the last five chapters, the protagonist feels pretty good. Juliet and Jon talk about those things that movies and books get wrong—spurred on by several choice example…

Sometimes a writer will repeat a comfortable device… Again… And again… And again… What is happening and why? Juliet and Jon examine a trap that Jon recently fell into—the dreaded ellipsis. Why would that happen? And what to look out for when writing…   Book men…