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Thursday, February 27
Point Of View: Elements
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Today I'm going to continue talking about the narrator; specifically, about how flexible a third-person narrator can be. Termin...
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Monday, February 24
Show vs Tell: Talking About The Narrator
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I've been sick. Not condolence card sick, but sick. First the flu then a nasty cold. Over the past few weeks, I've been tur...
Wednesday, February 19
Creating A Logline, Or One Sentence Summary, For Your Story
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When you start out to write a story I find it helps to have an idea--even if it's a broad, general, diaphanous, sort of idea--about...
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Monday, February 17
Best Fonts For Genre Book Covers
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One of the most difficult things about creating a book cover is selecting a font. I'll try Impact and maybe Engravers MT and then rea...
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Friday, February 14
A Pattern of Character Emotion
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Every day I complete a writing exercise to help stretch my writing muscles. Lately, I've been thinking about sharing these exercis...
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Wednesday, February 12
Homo Sapiens vs Homo Fictus: What's The Difference?
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It is often said that characters are the raw material from which stories are created--and I couldn't agree more--but let's exam...
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Monday, February 10
How To Create An Entertaining Protagonist: A Story Checklist
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What do you have over your writing desk? Mine is littered with pieces of paper on which I've scribbled bits of (what I think is) sa...
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Friday, February 7
The Inciting Incident vs The Call To Adventure
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Something I've been meaning to write about for a while is the difference between the Inciting Incident and the Call to Adventure. ...
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Wednesday, February 5
What Kind of Writer Are You? Part Two of Two
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Yesterday (see: What Kind of Writer Are You? Dramatic Action versus Character Development ) I talked about two kinds of writers or writ...
Tuesday, February 4
What Kind of Writer Are You? Dramatic Action versus Character Development
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Character Driven versus Action Driven Stories I love stories driven by dramatic action. Stories like Indiana Jones , Die Hard , Le...
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