Category: Musings
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Around and Around We Go
Revisiting scenes in the cycle of character actions and interactions allows for the reader to notice through the eyes of the major characters. It also presents symbols and signs held within the context of the settings that indicate not only more about the specific settings and what they have to say regarding character, but also…
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So You Want to Write a Story: How=Story
A story can be seen as answering six essential questions: Who, What, Where, When Why, and How? Who concerns the characters. What defines the current situation, problem or dilemma. Where describes the setting. When is the second part of the setting, time and period in history, either current, or some time in the past, or…
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Making Soup
Screenwriter, and Creative Writing teacher of Morningside Writers, Kendall Williams, likens crafting stories and novels to setting about to make soup. We discussed the two processes in our a today’s special segment of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, Savory Writing: Character and Plot. Two essential ingredients to a savory and aromatic story or novel…
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Flexibility and the Writers Capacity for Growth and Learning
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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Editing: How Important is It?
Very. And yet this is a place where writers from all genres agree to disagree, as was the case today on AAMBC Radio where the topic was, “How Important is Editing?” I encourage all writers and novices of the craft to listen to or download the broadcast. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AAMBC/2009/05/02/Panel-Discussion-How-important-is-Editing It would seem that quality editing is…
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Our Diary: Our Stories
What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds…