Screenwriters hold a wealth of knowledge that benefits the fiction writer. Screenwriter and playwright, Kendall Williams who runs Morningside Writers’ Group sees himself as a dramatist-teacher. Along with facilitating fiction writers and memoirists to learn the basics of story telling–character, plot, point of view, dialogue, setting, and theme, Kendall also teaches workshop participants how to […]
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Screenwriter, Kendall Williams, describes the art of staging your writing to create savory, sensual and lively scenes as he discusses the challenges and triumphs of moderating Morningside Writers’ Workshops. Tune in. Kendall Williams is a Freelance Writer/Editor, and former Adult Basic Education and GED Instructor. His feature articles, film, and dance reviews appear online and
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The novel or short story is first and foremost a source of entertainment, what consumers turn to among myriad of choices, to provide rest and relaxation, from a world moving at breakneck speed. To insure the most comfortable reading experience, writers want to offer a story with interesting plot, centered on characters about the reader
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A poorly written story or a novel with gaps in plot structure or characters that act incongruent to the personality established at the outset of the work are like a movie that appears fuzzy on the screen, out of view and unfocused. Developmental editors like Linda Beed can spot these malfunctions in story and suggest
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I’ve received several comments on my blogs concerning Dan Brown. They were all positive, the readers saying they had added Angels and Demons to their reading list. I wrote to one person in response to their comment that: I find that reading a work that displays the element of craft I am trying to incorporate
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