About this episode

This episode discusses how to strengthen stories by cutting to the chase and offers tips on character naming.

The phrase "cut to the chase" originated in the film industry. When shooting and editing a movie, if things are getting dull cut to a chase scene. Cut to the chase applies to our novels and short stories, too. Here are ways we writers can make our stories stronger and our sentences more forceful by cutting to the chase. Also, a suggestion on naming characters. Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialo...

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