Tag: theme
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Protected: Of Ambivalence, Epiphanies, and Sonnets of Compassion …
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Protected: Of The Bone of a Trout, Piano Recitals and Failure …
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Of Pawns, Rooks, Knights and Bishops…
This weekend I played my first game of chess. My eldest now 23 learned the game from my husband. Like the cello, I have always admired people who played chess. It truly is a game of thought, forethought and reasoning. Unlike the game of checkers that I learned as a child and play with my…
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So You Want to Write a Novel: Situation and Story
If you want to write a novel then you must begin to think of the situation, and the story. Situation is context, the nature of events that brought about the story. Story is sequence of events regarding the preceding change.
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So You Want to Write a Book: Why?
The idea for your story has come to you. Images are filling your head. You cannot get a free thought that is not related to the theme. While driving you find yourself writing in your mind. This may sound a bit crazy, but I raise the question, Why do you want to write this book?
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No Escape
Writing is exhilarating. Crafting stories holds a rare type of excitement. And yet it can, and often stirs a fair amount of discomfort within the writer. Much of the angst we experience when writing relates to the aspect of revising, choosing the write word and phrasing, re-ordering paragraphs, re-scripting and re-organizing scenes.
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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…