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Saturday, November 15
Six Ways To Begin A Story: Humor
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Humorous Openings I think that comedy and drama go hand in hand and, clearly, I’m not the only one. (BTW, this post is part of ...
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Thursday, November 13
Six Ways To Begin A Story: Character Driven Openings
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The Character Opening The character story opening is my favorite kind of opening, though it’s arguably the trickiest to pull ...
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Monday, November 10
Writing And The Three Secrets of Magic
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I’m going to take a break from my series on story openings (I’ll come back to that on Wednesday) to look at what Ferdinando Buscema c...
Saturday, November 8
Six Ways To Begin A Story: Puzzle Openings
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On the 31st I began a series on Story Openings and claimed—boldly—that there were six. Well, more or less six; I suppose it depends on ...
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Thursday, November 6
Reimagining Fairytales
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I’ve always been in love with the idea of re-imagining one of the fairytales I adored as a child, telling it again in a way that preser...
Monday, November 3
Conflict: What Is It Good For?
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It seems to me that there are six general ways to open a story. The first way, as I discussed last week, is with description . The sec...
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Friday, October 31
Six Ways To Begin A Story
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Openings are frustrating. At least for me. So much is riding on them. Often, if you don’t catch your reader’s interest with the first...
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Wednesday, October 29
On Using Symbols In Your Story
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What Is An Image System? Before I talk about what an Image System is let’s look at an example of one in use. In Pierre Boileau...
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Tuesday, October 28
What Makes A Story Terrifying?
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I love Halloween. Always have. Perhaps that’s why I love a good horror story. The first horror story I heard was a spine-tingling tal...
Saturday, October 25
How To Coax Story Ideas Out Of Hiding
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Ever been stuck for a plot? You wanted to write something but all your ideas fled, leaving you with what seemed like an infinite white ...
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