Beth Black
Characters & Conflict
Visit the "Free Samples" page on this site, and you'll find a short story I wrote about the way a lot of characters feel as they navigate...
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Beth Black
Sep 19, 20212 min read
Loving the Terms
My love for literary devices goes back to UCI, where the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms became my favorite writing resource. I...
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Beth Black
Jun 7, 20212 min read
Internal Rhyme Comes Just in Time
There's a reason they call it wordplay. Study language enough, and it becomes play to choose tropes that express more than the action or...
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Beth Black
May 16, 20215 min read
Distortion Extortion
It began quietly. I was launching a novel called Where You Go, I Go and needed to draw attention to it. This is a monumental challenge...
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Beth Black
Oct 17, 20206 min read
Opening Scene: Where You Go, I Go
Bonnie didn't like her odds in this place, surrounded by fossils in wheelchairs — the lame, the doomed, the decaying, the moribund.
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Beth Black
Oct 15, 20202 min read
What Came True
What would it mean to become a professional writer?
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Beth Black
Jul 16, 20202 min read
A Story and a Half
It's one thing to read a story. It's another to know the tale that wags it.
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Beth Black
Jan 10, 20222 min read
Characters & Conflict
Visit the "Free Samples" page on this site, and you'll find a short story I wrote about the way a lot of characters feel as they navigate...
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