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Saturday, October 11
The Key To Making A Character Multidimensional: Pairs of Opposites
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I’m not going to recap the content of my previous two posts (it would take too long), but if you’d like to give them a quick look here a...
Thursday, October 9
Story World As Crucible
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Yesterday we talked about the essence of drama and the key to developing character; namely, developing a story world which will test t...
Tuesday, October 7
Mind Worms And The Essence of Drama
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Have you ever watched the movie, The Game ? Michael Douglas plays a person with every material advantage who is, nevertheless, precari...
Friday, October 3
Story Composition: Variety Within Unity
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I’m slowly worming (bookworming!) my way through Robert McKee’s epic book on life and writing, “Story,” and have come to what I think ...
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Wednesday, October 1
The Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest with Margaret Atwood
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I’m back! My vacation was fabulous, but it’s equally fabulous to be back in my writers cave surrounded by my books and cats and dust ...
Tuesday, September 9
The Royal Order of Adjectives
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Lists are powerful. I don’t know what I’d do without them. Lists of names for characters, lists of locations, lists of interestin...
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Friday, September 5
Keeping A Writing Journal
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“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. [...] [I]f you want to write, you need to keep a...
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Thursday, September 4
Subplots And The Great Swampy Middle
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Today I’d like to talk about something that puzzled me no end when I first began writing: subplots. I’ve been reading Robert McKee’s bo...
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Tuesday, September 2
Guest Post by Chris Pitchford on Writing And Programming
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Today I’m going to do something a bit different. I don’t usually have guest posts, but when I discovered Chris Pitchford was coming out...
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Friday, August 29
Using adverbs in dialogue tags: a matter of style or a sign of timidity?
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Writers are often told not to use adverbs in dialogue tags. For example: “You are dead to me,” he said coldly. Or, worse: “...
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