Tag: fiction
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Inhabiting Your Character: Journeying to the Ends of the Earth
Crafting a novel requires a major character with whom the author is willing to spend at least the next year. Much of the time spent with that character requires inhabiting her or his skin, living inside their situation that we have created. As writers we expend a significant part of the energy of our imagination…
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The Aquarium of the Writing Group
Creative writing teacher Kendall Williams sees Morningside Writers’ Group as an aquarium where participants can embrace their vulnerabilities. Anyone who has ever tended and aquarium, particularly salt water aquariums, knows how delicate their atmosphere and the tedium required in maintaining a safe balance of salt to water along with other factors to ensure longevity of…
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The Screenwriter and the Fiction Writer
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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Radio Show | Screenwriter and Creative Writing Teacher, Kendall Williams
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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Radio Show | Father’s Day Discussion of “The Soul of a Man”
The contributors to Peace in the Storm Publishing’s publication, “The Soul of a Man“, come together and discuss their experiences of working on the anthology. So tune in. Peace in the Storm Publishing http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200904/1240755887.html marclacy.com http://aalbc.com/authors/fredrick.htm William Fredrick Cooper Joey Pinkney http://www.theurbanbooksource.com/contributors/joey-pinkney.html http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joey_Pinkney http://www.myspace.com/joeyreviews http://www.facebook.com/people/Joey-Pinkney/1639102478 http://www.klthewriter.com/page/page/5575465.ht http://www.jihadwrites.com/ http://www.holdonbestrong.com/jaroldimes.html http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Ganges/1040878311 http://www.myspace.com/writethevisionmg http://www.mauricemgrayjr.com/ http://theromerreview.com/trr/?page_id=3 http://www.myspace.com/alvincromerthejackal
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Radio Show | Father’s Day Discussion of “The Soul of a Man”
The contributors to Peace in the Storm Publishing’s publication, “The Soul of a Man“, come together and discuss their experiences of working on the anthology. So tune in. Peace in the Storm Publishing http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200904/1240755887.html marclacy.com http://aalbc.com/authors/fredrick.htm William Fredrick Cooper Joey Pinkney http://www.theurbanbooksource.com/contributors/joey-pinkney.html http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joey_Pinkney http://www.myspace.com/joeyreviews http://www.facebook.com/people/Joey-Pinkney/1639102478 http://www.klthewriter.com/page/page/5575465.ht http://www.jihadwrites.com/ http://www.holdonbestrong.com/jaroldimes.html http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Ganges/1040878311 http://www.myspace.com/writethevisionmg http://www.mauricemgrayjr.com/ http://theromerreview.com/trr/?page_id=3 http://www.myspace.com/alvincromerthejackal
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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?