This one's for the animal lovers...
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Inspiration
It can be blessed hard to come by, some days. Call it Writer's Block, or whatever, we writers have as many ways to try to get past it, as others have hiccup cures. I found a new one... for me, anyhow. All this week I've had access to Netflix and a big TV, and have immersed myself in historic drama,... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Prompting: Family Ties That Bind
This prompt is for a particular kind of writing, though anything it inspires is welcome. The specific kind, is journaling: visiting your own past, your own circumstances, your experiences. I have a friend who is surrounded by them: his word for them, ijits. The people of little insight and... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Prompt: September
September... One of those months that is abundant with associations, meanings and metaphors... Labor Day--honoring working people, with a day off-work, and significant to the fashionable, because after this day, you can put away your whites and lights, and dress in those deep rich tones of autumn.... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Building the Arc
Life is change; life is problems and challenges; life is reaction and response. All these things also are what make a character and a story come alive, and the process of their change and evolution is the arc. A character arc begins with the character's state of being at the beginning of the story,... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Which Word, When and Why?
The words you use to are like the body-language of a story: they suggest and imply, and communicate more than their definitions allow. We use certain words in dialogue to convey personality of the speaker. The words you use in narrative reveal your personality as a writer, and also the personality... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Breaking the Rules
The best writers, the authors of best-sellers, of the classics--break the rules. Tolkien would have gotten a fight from a contemporary editor for his pages-long single-speaker narrative in FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, a scene in which Gandalf describes to a gathering why he missed an appointment. Mark... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 7, 2012
If you have never seen Jacques Tati...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGUIpdc0i4&feature=related Take a couple of minutes for this retrospective glance at M.Hulot's Holiday Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Commas.
Commas? Commas! We need punctuation to make sense of what we read. Punctuations tells something of the sound of the words, the emphasis, and most importantly, what is the relationship of word to word, phrase to phrase. Commas inform as we read, what modifies what, and what does not modify what. When... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Intellect vs Inspiration
This is one of my Writing Workshop topics, addressing the problem of getting past the left-brain's diligent conscious ordering and explication of an idea, to the right-brain's almost effortless expression of the idea. A friend sent me this link today, so I can share it with you:... Sign in to see full entry.