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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
What Came True
What would it mean to become a professional writer?
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Beth Black
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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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