Common Mistakes When Writing Dialogue (and how to avoid them)
Strong dialogue forwards plot, it demonstrates the nature of relationships, and it also (paradoxically) highlights what characters can’t or won’t say to one another.
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miCRo: “The Hoard” by Dev Murphy
The speaker of Dev Murphy’s hybrid piece “The Hoard” uses the words of literary figures to examine and reexamine love and desire, creating a hoard within the text itself, which she reshapes throughout the piece.
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miCRo: “A Young Woman Made Up of Dirt” by R. Cross
In this twist on a creation myth, R. Cross’s “A Young Woman Made Up of Dirt” explores self-definition and womanhood through the speaker’s musings on her formation and destruction.
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Reading and Drinking: “Reality TV” by Michael Kardos
We here at The Cincinnati Review are thrilled to showcase an exciting new collaboration with Reading and Drinking: A Cocktail Blog!
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miCRo: “Mother” by SJ Sindu
By pairing repetition and lists as the narrative moves through time, Sindu forms a striking portrait of a mother-daughter relationship complicated by generational differences.
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Writing Advice We’re Thankful to Have Received
In the spirit of the season, we here at CR thought it might be nice (and cathartic) to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on some of the best writing advice we are thankful to have received.
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Why We Like It: “Erase the Days” by Jason Ockert and “Recurring” by Lyndsey Reese
I’m resistant to making generalizations about genres. I’m of the general opinion that poetry and fiction use the same ingredients, just with wildly different doses.
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miCRo: “In Blue” by Shruti Swamy
Shruti Swamy’s “In Blue” captures a sense of shifting identity at the core of new motherhood.
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Why We Like It: “Respair” by Craig van Rooyen and “Seven Facts” by Christina Olson
Poetry gives me the shivers in part because it carves out new spaces to inhabit, however briefly, and this allows readers to see the world as something new.
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miCRo: “The Walking River” by Carl Lavigne
Carl Lavigne’s story “The Walking River” is a wonderfully unsettling portrayal of the natural world gone topsy-turvy.
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