: About Me

I am a helthcare professional and writer from Hamburg, NY. I have two novels published to date, KEY LIME SQUEEZE and LAKE EFFECT. I am married to the love of my life, Trish, and have two wonderful children, Daniel and Katelyn.

My passion is ...

my wife, my son, and my daughter

I know too much about ...

trivial things

My parents always told me ...

something, but i wasn't always paying attention

My childhood ambition ...

to be a hockey player

Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips Fiction writing: Advancing the plot through action and dialogue

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At their most basic, stories have two elements: Dialogue and Narrative. Narrative also has two main purposes: to inform the reader and to describe a person, place or thing. Funny thing is, done right, so does Dialogue. Many times the dialogue between characters can give you as much if not more information about your characters and thier plight as any narrative. My editor punctuated my last novel with comment regarding this very topic, and I began to learn very quickly getting the right balance between dialogue and narrative will make all the difference in the success of your story, and you...

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