Tag: novels
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Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail. Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
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Structure and Delivery
The artist must grasp the importance of structure as it pertains to the art form she or he seeks to create. Along with an appreciation of structure, crafting entertaining and engaging stories also involves a deep understanding of psychology.
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Dramatist and Dramaturge
Much has been written and said about point-of-view, the perspective and way in which a story or novel is depicted. This leads to two other questions. Whose story is the narrative? And who best to tell it?
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Uncertainty
Setting out to write a story or novel is one of the most difficult tasks a person can undertake. Several things make the work hard, one of which is uncertainty. We start out at the beginning of a story, thinking we know where we are going, holding some idea of where we’d like to travel.
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Writing and Egolessness
Crafting stories is the perfect opportunity, offers a wonderful experience, to practice egolessness. The words our characters speak, our prose that describes their actions and feelings are but soldiers in the army of our thoughts. How fleeting.
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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…