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This page contains the archive for the Writing Right with Dmitri articles
written by Dmitri Gheorgheni which have appeared in The Post.
| Date | Column Subjects | |
| 08.08.11 | De facto Fictionalising | |
| 15.08.11 | How to Build a Character Who Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Paragraphs | |
| 22.08.11 | Show and Tell | |
| 29.08.11 | Know your Audience | |
| 05.09.11 | Being There | |
| 12.09.11 | When in the Woods, Do as the Woodsies do | |
| 19.09.11 | Trading Licks | |
| 26.09.11 | How to Be a Literary Imposter | |
| 03.10.11 | Visualising the Black Box | |
| 17.10.11 | Xenoglossophobia, or Dealing with Oodle-Doodle-Flip | |
| 24.10.11 | How to Watch Television (for Writing Practice) | |
| 31.10.11 | How to Write a Horror Story | |
| 07.11.11 | How to Stalk the Wild Idea | |
| 14.11.11 | The Universes we Make | |
| 21.11.11 | Taming the Rewrite Monster | |
| 28.11.11 | How Reliable Is Your Narrator? | |
| 05.12.11 | Your Character's Passport Photo | |
| 12.12.11 | Getting the Holiday Right | |
| 19.12.11 | Writing the Three-Hanky Story | |
| 09.01.12 | Dialoguing | |
| 16.01.12 | Stealing from RL | |
| 23.01.12 | Stealing from RL: Stealing History | |
| 30.01.12 | Stealing from Yourself | |
| 06.02.12 | Inspiration | |
| 13.02.12 | How to Be a Ferguson | |
| 20.02.12 | Talking the (Local) Talk | |
| 27.02.12 | Taking Your Characters Down a Peg | |
| 05.03.12 | Offing Your Villains | |
| 12.03.12 | Youthful Characters | |
| 19.03.12 | Moral Issues | |
| 26.03.12 | The Rules of the Game | |
| 02.04.12 | Getting from Here to There | |
| 09.04.12 | Voices from the Past | |
| 16.04.12 | Cussing A Blue Streak | |
| 23.04.12 | Remaining Neutral in the Gender Wars | |
| 30.04.12 | Dressing Your Characters | |
| 07.05.12 | My Normal, Your Normal | |
| 14.05.12 | Laughing With or Laughing At? | |
| 21.05.12 | Let's Pretend | |
| 28.05.12 | More Thoughts on Laughter | |
| 04.06.12 | The Quantum Moment | |
| 11.06.12 | Fun with Trope | |
| 18.06.12 | Background Music | |
| 25.06.12 | What are Editors Good for? | |
| 02.07.12 | Darwinian Writing | |
| 09.07.12 | A Google Challenge | |
| 16.07.12 | Reading and Writing about Science | |
| 23.07.12 | Digging Deeper | |
| 30.07.12 | Writing for the Edited Guide | |
| 06.08.12 | Writing the Other | |
| 13.08.12 | Going for the Gold | |
| 20.08.12 | What I'm going to read this summer | |
| 27.08.12 | Mis-Fitting your Characters | |
| 03.09.12 | Firing Chekhov's Gun | |
| 10.09.12 | Terse or Worse? | |
| 17.09.12 | Adventures in the Skin Trade | |
| 24.09.12 | Writing out of Time | |
| 01.10.12 | Messing About with History | |
| 08.10.12 | Using Picture Prompts | |
| 15.10.12 | Attention-Getting Headlines | |
| 22.10.12 | Chipping Away at the Writer's Block | |
| 29.10.12 | Halloween Space Party | |
| 05.11.12 | Changing Hearts and Minds | |
| 12.11.12 | Cluing the Reader In | |
| 19.11.12 | What's hot, what's not | |
| 19.11.12 | (Extra) How to Have Fun with NaJoPoMo: A Subversive's Guide | |
| 26.11.12 | Mental Maps | |
| 03.12.12 | Where do you keep your notes? | |
| 10.12.12 | How to Accentuate the Positive | |
| 17.12.12 | Christmas cards | |
| 24.12.12 | Inventing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Writing Humbug | |
| 31.12.12 | How to Be Witty | |
| 07.01.13 | Pushing the envelope | |
| 14.01.13 | Exaggerating for Effect | |
| 21.01.13 | Living on writer time | |
| 28.01.13 | Stepping into a Different Stream | |
| 04.02.13 | Too Many Cooks | |
| 11.02.13 | A Pinched Idea | |
| 18.02.13 | Reasoning Backwards | |
| 25.02.13 | Depth of Field | |
| 04.03.13 | Where Do You Get Your Ideas? | |
| 11.03.13 | Storyboarding | |
| 18.03.13 | What the Edited Guide Needs | |
| 25.03.13 | Spring Cleaning Checklist | |
| 01.04.13 | Winning Book Ideas | |
| 08.04.13 | Staying on Message | |
| 15.04.13 | Tolerance, Curiosity, and the Both/And | |
| 22.04.13 | Follow The Money | |
| 22.04.13 | Save the Planet | |
| 29.04.13 | How to Let People Know You Are Witty | |
| 06.05.13 | The Sacredness of Laughter | |
| 13.05.13 | Why Do You Write? | |
| 20.05.13 | Building Your Mythology | |
| 27.05.13 | Location, Location, Location. |