Tag: craft
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Brainstorming
Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?
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The Path of Writing: Word-by-Word
Commitment to the word is also a vow to filling the blank page, either every day, every other day, each week, etc. We all have our schedules, our routines. Nothing gets written without them.
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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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Patience: Perhaps the 21st Century Writer’s Greatest Strength
Patience was among the many aspects forming the writer-editor relationship that my guests on this weekend’s broadcast on Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, addressed. Developmental editor and author of Business Unusual, Linda Beed along with former editor for a publishing company and now free-lance editor, Lynel Washington Johnson, stressed the need for authors and…
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Planning for Editing: The Author vs. the Novice Writer
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward re-writing. The writer, professional or not, looks forward to the opportunity of excising words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters that do not work and improving those that do. Many a would-be writer thinks whatever he puts down on paper is by that act…