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Dale Tucker, Novelist

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Category: Become A Better Writer

Tool Series #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 4

November 20, 2022December 2, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Literature, Writing Tools — 8 min read

  We’ve been discussing the so called Writing Multi-tool in this Tool Series.  Basically, the idea is to develop several writing strategies with which you can switch back and forth smoothly when writing scenes.  I use these four basic writing strategies as my multi-tool; they are […]

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Tool Series #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 2

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Discuss Writing Craft, Literature, Writing Tools — 3 min read

  Yesterday I named the four basic writing strategies which make up my Writing Multi-tool functions and which I use constantly while working.  They are: Description Dialogue Narrative Action Description and Action, as I said before, each have two sub-functions which I discussed when talking about […]

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Tool Series #2 — Writing Multi-Tool

November 3, 2022November 4, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Discuss Writing Craft, Literature, Writing Tools — 4 min read

  What Is A “Writing Multi-Tool”? It’s an idea I use in the course of writing but did not have a formal name for so I made one up—Writing Multi-tool.  Have you seen those foldable tools that are several tools in one?  The functions […]

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Talk Write — The Write Garbage Advice

October 27, 2022November 4, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Discuss Writing Craft, Literature, Personal, Talk Write — 4 min read

What is the “Write Garbage” advice? If you’ve been writing for any length of time, you’ve surely gone online and read content offered by the mountain of writing advice websites and blogs; I certainly have.  There seems to be hundreds of them.  (This was […]

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Writing Talk — A Writing Time Out

October 23, 2022November 4, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Literature, Personal, Productivity, Writing A Novel — 5 min read

Related to Writing, What Do You Mean by “Time Out”? If you’re a parent, you’re probably aware of the disciplinary concept of “time out.”  If your child is misbehaving, you may decide he needs a time out in which case he is sent to […]

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Writing Talk — The Moving Goalposts

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Discuss Writing Craft, Finish Your Book, Literature, Personal, Write A Novel — 3 min read

What Are “Moving Goalposts”? Good Morning!  Well, let’s get right to it, shall we? Here in the United States we have a saying:  “They keep moving the goalposts” by which we mean that what we think are the criteria at the beginning of a […]

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Writing Talk — A New Feature

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 — Posted inBecome A Better Writer, Discuss Writing Craft, Finish Your Book, Literature, Personal, Write A Novel — 2 min read

  Writing Talk, What Is It? Writing Talk is a new feature of this blog with the aim of encouraging fellow writers who are engaged in the daunting process of writing a full length book.  With Writing Talk, I will share some of what […]

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About me

Dale Tucker is a writer of literary fiction who enjoys solitude, nature, and cooking. His subject matter falls within the shared experiences, moral sensitivities, spirituality and hopes of common American people. These characteristics are, of course, broad in range and universal in some aspects but they are also, in other ways, unique to Americans. Tucker's aim is to elevate the heroism of the under- and working classes to the the position it deserves. Every day there are miracles performed by mothers and grandmothers, fathers and brothers, and by a myriad of invisible individuals who model bravery and exceptionality of character to those who know them. These are those Tucker chooses to write about, not the celebrated and "great".

  • 2023 Release - First Novel
  • About the Author
  • Beta Posts
  • Blog Archive
    • Talk Write Archive
      • Talk Write — The Moving Goalposts
      • Talk Write — Using The Stick-pile
      • Talk Write — A Writing Timeout
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 1
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 2
      • Talk Write — The Axiom, Part 3
      • Talk Write — The "Write Garbage" Advice
      • Talk Write — Watch Movies And Improve Voice
      • Talk Write — On Dialogue
    • Tool Series Archive
      • Tool Series #1 — Observation
      • Tool Series #2 — Writing Multi-Tool
      • Tool Series #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 2
      • Tool #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 3
      • Tool #2 — Multi-Tool, Part 4
  • Books By Dale Tucker - Chapter Samples
    • Wanderer Come Home
      • Prologue — Axel Browne
      • Chapter 1 — 626 Meridian
      • Chapter 2 — The Errand
      • Chapter 3 — The Big Deal
      • Chapter 4 — Typical Day
      • Chapter 5 — The Drowning
      • Chapter 6 — Yellow Frogs
      • Chapter 7 — The Tour
    • Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage!
      • 1 The Bermuda Hotel
      • 2 The Tinpot Emperor
      • 3 A Body in Central City
      • 4 The Hideous Depression
      • 5 An Orwellian Supper
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