Crafty Of Writing: Things to Work On?

[aldersprig]

So I've been thinking about doing a series of posts, looking up tips on specific areas of writing & gathering them here, commenting on them, and trying them.

Those of you who are writers, are there particular areas you'd like to see me cover?

I know one thing *I* need to work on is dialogue tags, for instance. When I reread conversations I've written, even I have trouble figuring out who said what.

Comments

[inventrix]

Now I wanna do like a guest post lecture on how I do dialogue tags. >.>

How about character or scene description?

[aldersprig]

I would love a guest lecture on dialogue tags - your notes on that actually helped me a lot!

Ooh, another good one.

[inventrix]

I will write one today and you can use it whenever!

[aldersprig]

Awesome!!

[anke]

Plotting/outlining? I seem to remember you mentioning trying out different methods.

[clare_dragonfly]

Cliffhangers!

And, maybe, writing bad/evil/unsympathetic characters?